Grand River Transit

[ijmorlan]

Too bad we wasted all that money on an LRT. Buses are cheap to own, operate, and maintain!

Note: I am actually in favour of more buses and bus maintenance facilities. But it’s interesting that the amount for a single new bus facility is a significant fraction of the cost of the supposedly ruinously expensive LRT system.

Can't tell if you're being serious or not, but, no, busses are not cheap to won, operate and maintain.

More drivers, more mechanics, diesel fuel more expensive than electricity, those are among the things that make a bus route more expensive to operate than an LRT for the same number of passengers.

I left out the “”. All too many people seriously believe we should have just expanded bus service, because they are supposedly cheaper than LRT. At least that’s what they say; but I’m not convinced that people expressing that opinion are all sincere. I think in many cases they’re really just opposed to transit expansion, and the easiest way to avoid LRT construction is to pretend to be in favour of “sensible” “inexpensive” buses.