12-08-2020, 10:05 AM
(12-08-2020, 09:57 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-08-2020, 01:09 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Again, operational costs....and if your goal is to grow your system, then you hope never to have routes that don't go above 20 passengers.
Ultimately, I'm not opposed to the idea. I just don't think think it achieves much. I don't see that it can make a meaningful improvement in our transit...to me it's nothing more than a minor (and somewhat brittle) cost optimization.
And honestly, this isn't the first time I've heard excitement around the idea...the microtransit/smaller vehicle theme comes up pretty often.
My assumption here is that the operation costs are lower. If they were higher, I don't see any reason why GRT would have ordered these.
These are not microtransit -- it's more like a 2/3-scale bus -- and I don't see any huge excitement about this. But if it's a more efficient way to use our transit budget, and allows the savings to be spent elsewhere, I don't see the reason for the grumbling.
"costs" is maybe not the right word...inflexibility.