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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Well the few people added to traffic because transit service has been cut (has it even been cut during rush hour) are easily swamped by the loss of lanes in complete streets and bike lanes so I think those complaining about traffic are acting rationally voting for Sutcliffe and Ford. Certainly there are Orleans suburbanites who take transit to work vote for lower taxes and complain about how slow it is because of having to change at Blair and we can call them a hypocrite but what even pie in the sky spending plan would fix their problems?
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I guess we fundamentally disagree here because you have it totally opposite in that the traffic caused by people opting to drive because of reliability or travel times or their general mistrust of transit far outweighs the traffic caused by bike lanes and complete streets (a theory debunked by the principle of induced demand when considering the long run).
In general no I'd say there haven't been any notable cuts to rush hour transit service (apart from upcoming cuts to 200-series routes that people might be acting in anticipation of) but I'm referring more so to the general abandonment of transit that's happened over the past decade+ ironically coinciding with a change of direction in 2011.
Yes we'd need a pie in the sky tax plan to save transit by tomorrow but more modest tax increases over the past decade would've done the trick too. And Sutcliffe and co. could at least chart us on a path that undoes past wrongs gradually and somewhat palatably but instead he's doubling down, even in the face of transit (and general city mobility) crisis and further handicapping residents down the road.