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Originally Posted by YOWetal
The LRT wasn't a huge increase in capital spending for Transit? Was rush hour service cut at the same time coming out of the bus strike? That is in the past and pre-pandemic so leave that argument aside.
I think you are right about the general sentiment and even off peak cuts (along with especially reliability issues) do make someone who was driving 2 days a week and now needs to be in the office think nah transit can't be trusted right now. The inertia of driving is hard to overcome.
But back to the real 2024 world a 37% transit tax increase is going to forego those cuts. Is anyone really claiming that is going to restore confidence? Or should we just throw more money at the problem until everyone realizes their car based lifestyle is an abonination and starts living an urban life buying their groceries on the bus?
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But throwing money at the problem tends to be the only solution that actually works. Studies across Canada and North America show that investment in transit = increase in ridership. Leadership in this city likes to pretend that Ottawa is so unique that this doesn't apply to us, when everything else says otherwise, including data going back to the 2011 transit cuts here.
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