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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dedicated bus lanes are a waste of resources.  They’re used a handful of times in an hour. Meanwhile you’re backing up traffic.[/quote]

Same with bike lanes. [b]The purpose of our transportation system should be to move as many people around as efficiently as possible.[/b] It shouldn't be to put your thumb on the scale for modes of transportation favored by young lefties that few people actually want to use.  [/quote]

Buses are very efficient. Bicycles are very efficient. Cars are very inefficient.[/quote]

Do you think creating special lanes for people who want to get around via horseback would be efficient?

Creating dedicated lanes for ways of getting around that only a tiny share of people actually use is the definition of inefficiency. [/quote]

Of course the most efficient thing of all would be to fund the subway. But instead we starve it and focus on means of transportation the vast majority of people will never ever use. [/quote]

"Metro’s funding shortfall next fiscal year is so steep that even an additional $300 million couldn’t stave off severe service cuts that would include the elimination of bus routes, reduced rail hours, longer train waits, and station or station entrance closures.

Metro leaders on Tuesday released multiple outlines for reduced service for fiscal 2025 that take into account a projected $750 million budget shortfall, as well as what would happen if Metro received no funding increase or only a partial increase. While the plans are only a possible framework and could change dramatically before July 1, the start of the new fiscal year, Metro officials said the proposals include carefully “targeted” cuts to minimize effects on the most passengers.

The plans are intended to show how quickly transit service in the region could deteriorate without a huge injection of subsidies from jurisdictions across the Washington region. The outlines are the transit system’s latest attempt to sound alarms about the depths of its financial troubles, a problem hastened by the end of federal pandemic aid."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/10/24/metro-budget-service-stations/

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