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Expanding on some bus discussion in the comments of my May Day post, and probably repeating some old calculations:
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Summary
It would probably just take a few hundred $million to restore at least daily bus service on all cut Greyhound routes, so people could at least get out of town. Hourly service to all population centers could cost $5 to $60 billion/year, depending on estimation method, and probably closer to $5 billion. Total Mass Transit (Bus) could cost more on the order of $300 billion for something I'd consider reasonable, to $2.7 trillion for massive overkill. Big savings if you ask most people to walk a few blocks to the stop. Also possibly big savings from using different numbers (or more light rail) but I try to be conservative.
Americans would like more public tranport. Even small town or Republican people.
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Summary
It would probably just take a few hundred $million to restore at least daily bus service on all cut Greyhound routes, so people could at least get out of town. Hourly service to all population centers could cost $5 to $60 billion/year, depending on estimation method, and probably closer to $5 billion. Total Mass Transit (Bus) could cost more on the order of $300 billion for something I'd consider reasonable, to $2.7 trillion for massive overkill. Big savings if you ask most people to walk a few blocks to the stop. Also possibly big savings from using different numbers (or more light rail) but I try to be conservative.
Americans would like more public tranport. Even small town or Republican people.