Where there's a will, there's a way? If someone/some people can attempt to organize and bring it - or another iteration - back, then they should. A new iteration would probably be best, though. Something with more willpower, organization and understanding of "branding". TriTAG had a reputation for a reason: they were bloody annoying. You've got to market your message in a proper way so that a broader group of people will become curious of messaging and feel compelled to explore more about what they are seeing. TriTAG was like a Not Just Bikes Discord server of transit nerds...not exactly good at getting a message out to the broader public. Also you'd need good "leadership" or whatever...far too many transit activists are insufferable heh. So you don't want someone who can't read a room, if you know what I mean.
A new group could be a success if they had someone who understood branding correctly. If there was a good group of people with volunteers who - preferably, anyway - had experience in certain things (marketing, transit, architecture, planning, economics, education and heck even memetics, not even joking) then it could be the sort of thing that can change minds about transit in Waterloo Region beyond attending council meetings on Zoom or lurking very niche websites like this. Infographics to get the basic message out with sources, then readers can check it out and form their own opinions. I mean as an example, it's easier to promote biking in a broad way that appeals to all sorts of demographics, rather than waffling on about carbon emissions or how absolutely evil car owners are. I even try to link this place on Reddit a lot, to get people clicking around and finding resources since this is a helpful forum (although whoever the morons are in /r/waterloo love to ban me for shitposting even though it doesn't work - can't stop, won't stop, tho) but really all you need is like a good message, resources for people to understand why transit is worth investing in and way to get it out across various platforms be it Twitter, small local zines, news coverage, petitions, council awareness, in person rally's or even something silly like stickers. It's how you'll find grassroots organizations operating in larger cities and there's no reason why it can't work in apathetic Waterloo Region.
A new group could be a success if they had someone who understood branding correctly. If there was a good group of people with volunteers who - preferably, anyway - had experience in certain things (marketing, transit, architecture, planning, economics, education and heck even memetics, not even joking) then it could be the sort of thing that can change minds about transit in Waterloo Region beyond attending council meetings on Zoom or lurking very niche websites like this. Infographics to get the basic message out with sources, then readers can check it out and form their own opinions. I mean as an example, it's easier to promote biking in a broad way that appeals to all sorts of demographics, rather than waffling on about carbon emissions or how absolutely evil car owners are. I even try to link this place on Reddit a lot, to get people clicking around and finding resources since this is a helpful forum (although whoever the morons are in /r/waterloo love to ban me for shitposting even though it doesn't work - can't stop, won't stop, tho) but really all you need is like a good message, resources for people to understand why transit is worth investing in and way to get it out across various platforms be it Twitter, small local zines, news coverage, petitions, council awareness, in person rally's or even something silly like stickers. It's how you'll find grassroots organizations operating in larger cities and there's no reason why it can't work in apathetic Waterloo Region.