Plowing costs a lot in winter, maybe they should only plow 1 lane instead of both on the suburban highway, and maybe just during rush hour?
The point is that only one mode of transit has limits imposed on it in the name of sensible budget choices - while everything else gets priority access to the chequebook, despite costing a lot more to maintain.
A suburban highway costs the same to the taxpayer when empty at 2AM and full at 5PM. That cost inflexibility means that if you’re in charge of the budget, of course you’re going to only pull the levers that are available to you: removing buses and trains and limiting anything new that people might be demanding. It’s just more proof for when transit users feel like second class citizens… in the budget, they clearly are.
Better transit can be seen two ways:
1: more costs to be avoided (current state)
2: more service that will generate more ridership
The point is that only one mode of transit has limits imposed on it in the name of sensible budget choices - while everything else gets priority access to the chequebook, despite costing a lot more to maintain.
A suburban highway costs the same to the taxpayer when empty at 2AM and full at 5PM. That cost inflexibility means that if you’re in charge of the budget, of course you’re going to only pull the levers that are available to you: removing buses and trains and limiting anything new that people might be demanding. It’s just more proof for when transit users feel like second class citizens… in the budget, they clearly are.
Better transit can be seen two ways:
1: more costs to be avoided (current state)
2: more service that will generate more ridership
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