The Aud

[Acitta]

Why can't the employees take public transit? No parking needed.

Because most transit in the region doesn't go past midnight or before 6 am, and therefore is utterly useless for staff, especially when they are needed the most -- game night or event night and Sundays. Not to mention if you want a 17 year old female riding the busses at night assuming they're on a main route with the idiots that go on the busses late at night. We'll skip the whole transit is time consuming in this region, as it is. My mother wanted to get to her doctors office and avoid asking me (since I was working) and to make a successful trip, she needed to have about 5 hours of time for the full trip (there and back). At 79, she can't do that.

Transit is a good option if you live on a main route, work on a main route, and your working hours are during peek transit hours. It's also good when you have a lot of spare time on your hands and don't have a lot of responsibilities. It's good if this is your only option due to medical reasons (such as being blind) or legal reasons (such as a DUI).

When I looked at my own situation, and my hours of work, transit is unavailable to me 14 working days out of 20. This is because I start work a 6am 7 out of 20 days, I finish work at midnight (or 11) 7 days out of 20. Those 14 days also include 2 Sundays which has zero service for where I live.

People who do not regularly ride public transit seem to have strange ideas about what happens on transit and who rides it. I have news for you, 17 year old girls are already riding the buses at night.  The elderly and disabled with walkers and scooters ride transit. Women with infants and toddlers ride transit. For transit users, riding the bus is normal, not some kind of punishment. Also, the more people you have riding transit, the safer it is. As for late night bus schedules, when there is more demand then schedules can be adjusted to meet it. I regard to your mother, my mother lived alone (in London) till she was 95 and got by taking taxis and a community bus that stopped at her building with my brother only occasionally driving her places.
Transit doesn't work for everybody in every situation, but it would work for a lot more people who think that transit doesn't work for them because they haven't tried to integrate it into their lives.