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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the reality of public transit:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/traffic/mission-metro/metro-warns-massive-service-cuts-death-spiral-transit-750-million-shortfall/65-9c0dc54f-8f65-46c4-8390-51e8108ac1a5

Where are the anti-car fascists now?  Have fun going to work or doing things on the weekend.  The anti-car crowd loves to give pie in the sky calculations that never account for human factors like crime, overrun costs, inefficiencies, and huge bloated salaries and benefits for the unionized workers bankrupting the system.  So glad we are spending billions more on this black hole with the purple line.  Watch, the only solution they’ll come up with is to increase taxes and to increase fares to outrageous prices.  It has never dawned on them to start with common sense ideas like increasing safety and severely punishing fare evaders. Why should anyone pay of a huge portion of people ride for free already? [/quote]

How fascinating that you have this all figured out. It’s fare dodgers and safety!!!! Who knew?

It has nothing to do with a permanent shift in the way people work? [/quote]

The metro needs to adapt their cost structure to the shift in the way people work then.  That means eliminating jobs, getting rid of grossly overpaid union workers, and more automation.[/quote]

So, Metro is actually doing that. And it doesn't mean eliminating jobs and union-busting. It means focusing less on morning/evening weekday peaks, and more on all-day and weekend frequencies.[/quote]

Which is exactly why it is a death spiral.  They’ll keep cutting service. Which means it is less and less convenient. Which means less riders.  Which means worsening finances.  And the spiral goes on.

They’ll keep cutting service before they eliminate jobs and grossly overpaid salaries.  It’ll ruin the entire thing because unions gotta milk the golden calf as long as they can before it dies.[/quote]

It will only be a death spiral if the local jurisdictions allow it to be a death spiral. A death spiral would be a disaster for the local jurisdictions. So I hope you will advocate to your local jurisdiction to make Metro funding a priority.[/quote]

[b]What exactly is there to fund?[/b]  A system less and less people use? In what world does it make to flush money down the toilet like that?   They need to shed costs first and get lean before demanding more taxpayer bailouts to pay themselves cushy salaries and so they can lose $1b next year and another $1b after that.  Tax payers have infinitely deep pockets, right?  Just keep on soaking taxpayers for this bloated mess.[/quote]

Metro. You know, that thing that has stations, and you go in, and then you get on a train that runs on rails, sometimes underground, sometimes above ground, and when you get to your destination station, you get off the train, and you exit the station, and there you are where you wanted to go. It's been around since the 1970s. You should try it some time.[/quote]

More and more people aren’t using it, sooooo….[/quote]

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