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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Interview on CFRA right now. The guy from Orleans explained that the switch from express to rail doubled commute times and then the New Way to Bus meant that the local bus no longer went to Blair. He.was exasperated by how much transit had deteriorated We have thrown out most people going to work by transit. When do we spend money to make transit both reliable and timely? We have thrown out everything we learned in the 1970s and 1980s and lied to public about the benefits of rail. When were we told that rail would make commutes much worse?
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To be honest, sometimes it takes a crisis to get improvement. I'm kind of hoping that traffic and transit are getting to the point where average people are demanding the investments that we need.