01-30-2019, 10:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-30-2019, 10:52 AM by robdrimmie.)
(01-29-2019, 10:40 PM)Spokes Wrote:(01-29-2019, 02:37 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Is Mayor Jaworsky really this out of touch with how to ride a bus?
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/914...d-for-lrt/
Is he just delusional?
I had a short twitter conversation with Jaworksy (starts with my tweet at https://mobile.twitter.com/RobDrimmie/st...8370859009). Based on his responses I think that his quote was not presented entirely in context. He never blames the Record, a level of tact I have a lot of respect for, but he does elaborate a bit and it seems to me that there is more nuance to what he said than was included in the article.
Putting a lot of my opinion into it, my guess is that he was making a point that the system as it is today is impossible to navigate without an app, and the ideal state is a system that truly does have a level of frequency where it isn't required. If you look at a system like Manhattan, you can be reasonable assured during daytime hours that a train is going to come by pretty soon. There are almost certainly better systems around the world where that's true all day every day. I don't believe he intended to assert that GRT will be there once the Ion is running, just that the new routes are a meaningful step in that direction.
Edit to add: It looks like Jaworsky's response from this morning isn't showing in the thread? Just in case: https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveJaworsky/...1547039744