This is typical LTD,  undersell the cost and oversell the needed.  This EmX extension will run mostly in traffic (very unlike the Franklin extension), to the edge of town, Wal-Mart. It's hard to believe there was a "need" for it, because a few years before this route was proposed, LTD cut a tradition route that sever West 11th (#30) because it was underutilized.

On top of that, it will cost an additional $1.2 million more per year just to operate, than our tradition service.  So, they're replicating our current service for $100 million, and will cost $1.2 extra per year to operate.

This is more about free money to keep LTD's bloated administration employed, than it was to provide sensible, cost effective and sustainably public transit service.  Not to mention the corruption that comes with it by have a Wildish Sand and gravel family member on the LTD board, Jim Wildish.