The proposed CMT method would move people faster and make suburban employers more accessible. There are three main reasons that CMT will be more effective. First, the cost of collecting riders to TCs is reduced by using mostly single direction collector routes. And third, the fleet of taxi-vans, minibuses and STS vans will deliver workers to within a block of their job site, if not at the front door. A yearly budget for bus operations is given with cost in millions for each of the major service components.
Fares are higher to help pay for air conditioned transit centers and taxi-van service.
The total subsidy is nearly equal the 74 million required by Capitol Metro in FY 98 for bus operations. Each of these numbers is calculated in tables shown below. This table shows the number of vehicles of each type and the hours operated. Cost for each fleet component is calculated. The costs, in millions per year are added into Table 1.