Let’s do the math together….
Saw this posted somewhere, touting a job initiative/transportation venture in San Fran.
Mayor Gavin Newsom today joined the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and numerous elected and community leaders to celebrate the beginning of construction on the Central Subway, which is Phase 2 of the Third Street Light Rail Project. When service begins in 2018, this 1.7-mile extension of the existing T Third rail line will connect communities from Visitacion Valley to Chinatown with modern, convenient light rail service.
How many jobs?
The project will serve as an engine for economic growth and recovery in San Francisco, creating thousands of job opportunities. Recent estimates indicate that the Central Subway will support between 37,000 and 43,000 jobs over the life of the project.
The ratio on that is interesting. There are 5,280 feet to a mile, and you times that by 1.7 to get total length of 8,976 feet. Now, they can probably work on both sides at the same time, so let’s just double it, to 17,952 feet. Also, I would imagine that they’ll work on this thing like the Panama Canal, 3 shifts of 8 hours, round the clock. Through rain, snow, hail and NFC Champiomship games, so let’s just times that number by 3 (for the three shifts) giving us 53,856 feet within which those workers will be working.
That means that 24/7 working both sides of this track, each worker will have 1.25 feet, or 15 inches.
Dude, those sonsabitches really know how to work. Just imagine those folks all lined up, shoulder to shoulder, shovels in hand, digging holes and laying track. Just an awesome sight to behold, no?
ALSO: A friend noted that if we put San Francisco folks in charge of the Keystone Pipeline, it would employ 9,068,928 people. Which is a shitload of people, no matter how you do the math.
ADDED: Also, under my proposal, all of them will be veterans as well, I need to get VoteVets and their tens of supporters behind this in order to bring it to fruition, so based on that, I will expect the email touting the TSO Jobs Plan for Veterans from Dicksmith any second now.
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I’ve just tasked TSO with extrapolating this out over the length of the Keystone Pipeline to find out how many jobs were lost yesterday.
Also – obligatory comment about TSO getting excited about sentences like “each guy will have 15 inches”
#1 No jobs were lost as no jobs were gained.
The number of workers supported comes from the likelihood that the railway won’t be ready in 2018. Like the Big Dig, it’ll be a multi-generational thing.
The railway likely won’t be ready in 2118.
Paying prevailing union wage in San Fran, which is an average of $40-45 per hour, plus benefits.
Six years. Less than two miles for a rail that nobody will ride.
No wonder we’re fucking broke.
I just heard the “you’ve got mail” voice!! mwahhahaha!
each worker will have 1.25 feet, or 15 inches.
You seem to be under the assumption that all of those jobs will actually be filled by someone working. I believe that these will probably be predominantly (if not exclusively) union jobs, suggesting that the assumption may be erroneous.
Its just like how Obama created a million jobs for a trillion spent! YAY big government!