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Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues
I have a coworker whose home is three hundred meters from a B-Line stop and whose office is a similar distance from another B-Line stop. She drives, because taking transit is “$87 a month” and parking is “only $60 a month.” It seems to me that these are exactly the types of riders we should be trying to attract, but pushing the pass price as high as we can probably won’t do it. Later this year, if this proposal is accepted, taking the bus will cost “a hundred dollars a month!” and to people doing incomplete math (most people), driving will seem even cheaper than it did before.
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Your friend also risks being late because the buses drive by already full, which happened to me often as a daily rider when I lived in Hamilton.
But it's interesting to contrast with Ottawa. For myself, it's $190/month or $15/day for parking at my office and $100.75/month for a bus pass or $3.45/ride. I take the bus, as do almost all my coworkers, including people at executive levels. I would say I know more people who bike or walk to work than drive. Cost is obviously a factor, but so is the level of service and traffic congestion.
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