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Originally Posted by DTcrawler
It's not about specific projects. The general sentiment right now is that people do not trust transit, regardless of what type of service they're getting where they live. A good start would be to fix bus service reliability, and no not by cutting 74K hours of bus service as is currently planned. Btw part of that 74K hours of cuts does indeed include the cancellation of many 200-series commuter routes. Not 200 routes outright as you may have misread, but even still only 27 routes in the entire network will remain unchanged.
Second para is such a misrepresentation of reality that I won't even bother.
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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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