Comments From Tom Atkins

Here's some toll food for thought from Dan Hartman:

The actual toll revenues on the Northwest Parkway for 2004 (weekdays) were between *28% and 39% of projections*(!) Both the actual and the
forecast numbers are available on their own web site (tables attached).

They showed total actual revenue for 2004 of $4,208,593. The 2004
forecast for *_weekday_* revenue was $ 10,705,240. So if the weekend
traffic forecast was zero, they were 39% of projections. If the weekend traffic forecast was the same as weekday, they would have been 28% of forecast. If weekend traffic was forecast at half of weekdays, then they were about 33% of forecast.

This makes me ask 2 questions:

1. What numbers are Holt using to forecast traffic on the NWP in the EIS? This could make a huge difference in the modeling results.
2. I wonder what the comparison of forecast and actual is for E-470?

Tom

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