The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119021   Message #2584370
Posted By: Ebbie
09-Mar-09 - 12:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
Subject: RE: BS: Obama Goes For Broke
Interesting site. However, Morgantown's situation is much different from ours.

I only checked its county and three neighboring counties - those four counties (Monongalia, Marion, Preston and Weizel) and they hold about 185,000 in population (I didn't check across the border).

In other words, as I said before, Juneau is unique; we have only 30,000 people and don't have outlying areas to draw from. Except for our town proper, the only other populations in the villages within 500 miles number only in the hundreds; if one counts Sitka (about 10 hours by ferry, 20 minutes by jet) that adds about 8,000 people.

In reading the Morgantown RT system, I didn't see how it is funded. Do they use a subscriber system or is it with tickets like a subway?

But it sure looks good!