Grand River Transit

[MidTowner]

...I strongly believe we cannot possible talk about making drivers' lives difficult until we have a viable alternative in place.

We need to do both at once, I think. Increase ridership by making driving less pleasant and attractive, and then leverage that ridership growth into better transit service. It's not possible to have transit that would fully and completely serve all trips taken in the Region, before there is any ridership at all. I agree that the transit service needs to provide alternatives, but sometimes those can't exist in advance of the riders coming.

I continue to think that artificially cheap parking is one of the big things we can change to promote ridership. "Free" (to the user) parking makes car use seem a lot less expensive.