11-09-2015, 04:03 PM
(11-09-2015, 03:53 PM)MidTowner Wrote: Guelph is calling for about a 2.5% decrease in the tax-supported budget for transit. I wonder if ridership will decrease even more than that proportion, actually increasing the subsidy per-user (and serving fewer users).
That is exactly what happened in KW. Subsidies per passenger has gone down dramatically with the increase in service. We doubled the budget and quadrupled the ridership. Before we were spending a lot of money with almost no effect on transit, now we are spending more money but removing a substantial number of people from the roads and into the buses. How many? about 22 million trips per year last I checked.