01-23-2019, 08:56 PM
(01-23-2019, 02:14 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(01-23-2019, 01:16 PM)Spokes Wrote: Is that simply lack of demand?
I think so. The US tends be just that bit more suburban, and transit is just that bit more wrapped up in class politics, that transit ridership is always lower there. Similar cities with similar demographics in the US seems to always end up with about half the transit ridership of comparable Canadian cities. It doesn't help that one political party there seems to largely oppose the existence of transit on principle, compared to Canada where heavily conservative places like Calgary have great transit.
We can't rest on our 'laurel'....it seems the latest crop of conservatives in Ontario aim to kill transit same as in the US.