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Originally Posted by acottawa
OCTranspo has a $700M budget. Saving 0.1% of OCTranspo’s budget to reduce service on OCTranspo’s most high-profile service is either incompetent or an attempt to blackmail council.
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Again, $1.6M is more like 2.5% of the projected deficit. Not all of the deficit will be covered by cuts, but they're certainly going to use them to make a dent in it.
If ridership on the LRT is not utilizing the full capacity of the LRT during mid-day, and OC Transpo has no choice but to start making cuts to cover the deficit, then I don't think it's fair to call this "incompetence". It's making a cut that will have arguably the least effect on the network to start rounding that deficit down.
Even if it is "blackmailing" council... like, yeah, and? That would require council to care, which they historically haven't.
I've seen more than a handful of people question OC Transpo's alleged "bloat" because they saw them replace a handful of signage one too many times for their liking, so $1.6M is still a lot for the "fiscally minded" (not that I agree with it at all).
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Originally Posted by vtecyo
Actually - $1.6M is only ~0.002% of $767.8M, so yeah - probably blackmail.
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It's 0.2%.