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Originally Posted by YOWetal
The idea many have here that making people wait 20 minutes instead of 10 is going to have so many quit transit buy cars and the surge brings the whole city to a standstill seems very dubious.
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The proof will be in the pudding, but cutting trunk service by half is a pretty significant change. The knock-on effects when you take transfers into account can have big effect on end to end travel times which will make transit uncompetitive. Maybe this particular change alone doesn't induce that many people to buy cars, but it could easily be a last straw in the ongoing deterioration of service that has definitely driven more people to drive.
It's also the way they are going about it. By cutting mid-day and early evening service, they are signaling that they are still only focusing on commuters, which has been their problem all along.
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