Grand River Transit

[Spokes]

Is he just delusional?

I had a short twitter conversation with Jaworksy (starts with my tweet at https://mobile.twitter.com/RobDrimmie/st...8370859009). Based on his responses I think that his quote was not presented entirely in context. He never blames the Record, a level of tact I have a lot of respect for, but he does elaborate a bit and it seems to me that there is more nuance to what he said than was included in the article.

Putting a lot of my opinion into it, my guess is that he was making a point that the system as it is today is impossible to navigate without an app, and the ideal state is a system that truly does have a level of frequency where it isn't required. If you look at a system like Manhattan, you can be reasonable assured during daytime hours that a train is going to come by pretty soon. There are almost certainly better systems around the world where that's true all day every day. I don't believe he intended to assert that GRT will be there once the Ion is running, just that the new routes are a meaningful step in that direction.

Edit to add: It looks like Jaworsky's response from this morning isn't showing in the thread? Just in case: https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveJaworsky/...1547039744

Thanks for offering that clarification.  And the links!