11-20-2014, 01:35 PM
(11-20-2014, 01:30 PM)zanate Wrote: But even if we're moving our transit system away from a purely "transit as a social service" role, it can't abandon that role. Slashing low-ridership, low-frequency routes has real consequences for people for whom it is a lifeline. Remember GRT's route restructuring last year? Cambridge lost a low-ridership route, and access to House of Friendship went from doorstep to 250m away. It made a bunch of people unhappy and politicians aren't blind to it.
People who depend on public transit should move to places where it is provided. Students do this all the time. No one is entitled to a symphony hall within 450m, suggesting that a similar entitlement exist for public transit is madness.