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Originally Posted by wong21fr
Like this?
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You're asking ME to defend RTD?
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Originally Posted by wong21fr
Per passenger subsidy for this service is $19.97 and the average fare is $1.14.
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That service needs to be shit-canned.
My K.C. post does point out the (repeated) failure of basic bus routes in the Suburbs where at least this micro-transit option has been a popular success.
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Originally Posted by wong21fr
The perception is more of a mobility option of last resort than a viable commuting alternative. But how to change this so the working poor flock en mass instead of making poor financial decisions? Offering the service via Uber is certainly an option.
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Well stated.
I don't have ALL the answers and some things are best left to people much smarter than I am. Seattle has started using micro-transit as a first and last mile access to light rail stations (as I understand it) and that also is apparently going very well.
Lastly, five-tenths percent sales tax is a significant chunk of money. If they can't find a transit mode that actually performs well then there's a whole lot of things that Westminster (et al) could use that money to accomplish.
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Originally Posted by Cirrus
As to the point about having municipalities run their own local bus services with a regional agency handling cross-border ones, broadly I think that's a good idea, with a few caveats that we can discuss if you want to.
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You must be getting old; you're too 'old-fashioned'.