The Aud

[ijmorlan]

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.

Well said. Transit works about as well as we want to pay for it to work.

Not unlike roads — we, as a society, made a decision to pave roads to absolutely every house in the city, and guess what, roads are as a result stunningly useful. So much so, in fact, that the main roads are overloaded and can’t affordably be built fast enough to keep up.

If we decided that we would run transit at least every 10 minutes 18 hours a day on every existing route, I think ridership would go up so much that before too long, the fare recovery ratio would probably be back to where it is now. And at busy times all the main routes would have to run every 5 minutes, and all the iXpress routes would probably need to be converted to LRT. Useful transit is popular transit.