Monday, October 24, 2011

Standard-Examiner: Next Stop for (Faux) Trolley Report -- Analysis

Does this morning's story provide yet more evidence that Little Lord Godfrey has finally lost his marbles (to adopt highly-technical psychiatric terminology)?

The Standard-Examiner reports this morning that "[Ogden] city has compiled a ridership report that shows about 26,000 passengers have used two trolley-style buses that have looped around the downtown area for 10 months," and that the report "has been submitted to the Wasatch Front Regional Council and the Utah Transit Authority for analysis." This analysis would ostensibly determine whether a permanant "streetcar cirulater" (which would "loop" through two [easily walkable] blocks within the downtown area, and would soak the Ogden taxpayers with a cool 5 million bucks in "upfront money," plus $1 million per year in operating costs), might (in some wacky alternate universe) qualify for a grant of $25 million in federal funds:
Three questions:

1) Who will be paying for this percipient UTA analysis? (not the beleaguered Ogden taxpayers, we hope).
2) Does this "loopy" Godfrey project belong right up there near the top of the "short list" of other boneheaded Godfrey projects, right along with "crackpot flatland gondola" and "the loonybird ice tower"?
3) Does this morning's story provide yet more evidence that Little Lord Godfrey has finally lost his marbles (to adopt a highly-technical psychiatric term)?
Have at it, O Gentle Ones...

11 comments:

BikerBabe said...

Half a bag-o-fries short of a Happy Meal would be the more correct term, Rudi

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rudizink said...

LOL!  I stand duly corrected, heheheh.

Ogden Newbie said...

I'd prevously thought Godfrey was into BIG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. So what's with this extravant , yet small time,  downtown trolley loop?  I'm new here in Ogden.  Please help to educate me.

Loves Ogden said...

Culling from the SE article:

Disregarding the startup costs to Ogden City, The projected $ 1 mil projected operating costs should be distributed amongst the 26,000 riders who were logged in the last ten months.

Average cost per rider for the projected  "Ogden faux trolly"bus system substitute, using the numbers  provided here in today's WCF article assuming Ogden City gets a federal grant?

$38641.53 per person, per ride .

Whoa Nellie, Mister Godfrey!

DRFrued said...

Let's not quibble.  Godfrey is plainly "
NUTS" in my professioanal opinion.

Sigmund Freud (of Vienna) said...

Let's not quibble.  Herr Godfrey is plainly " NUTS" in my professional opinion.

Dan S. said...

Count your zeros.

Just A Thought said...

Gee! Maybe Ogden City should just drive tourists from the Intermodal hub to 25th Street in a fleet of Ogden owned limos.

Just a thought.

Just A Thought said...

Gee! Maybe Ogden City should just drive tourists back and forth from the Intermodal hub to 25th Street in a fleet of Ogden owned limos. It would be a heck of a lot cheaper.

Just a thought.

BikerBabe said...

so far that ridership has been getting free rides (anybody correct me if I'm wrong), why would anybody expect the ridership numbers to remain the same or increase if they had to pay?

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blackrulon said...

Wasn't the downtown trolley addd after Godfrey and others secretly went to the UTA to eliminate bus service down 25th street. Was the trolley service ever intented to be studied for ridership in future transist applications?

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