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From: Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:12:31 -0400
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:07:21 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:15:56 -0700, Paul S Person
> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >Kind of like Rapid Transit, which promises that, in 30 years, there
> >will be 30% fewer cars on the road /than there would be without it/,
> >not 30% fewer than there are today.
> 
> Here in Edmonton, a couple of years ago we had a massive change to all
> our bus routes.
> 
> The main upshot for the inner city is that the routes have been
> "optimized", but their frequency of service has been reduced in many
> instances, meaning a bus trip needs to be planned ahead, not done on
> impulse. (This makes it easier to comply with the single-use bag
> bylaw!)
> 
> This was done to free up resources to increase bus service to the
> suburbs. The hope was that this would result in the people whoi live
> there, who pretty much all have cars, taking the bus more often.
> 
> It is a good intention, since reducing carbon emissions is important,
> but expecting people with cars to start taking the bus? Anyone who
> lived in the real world would have known this was ludicrous. So they
> just ruined the bus service for people who need the bus for no reason.

I will start using the bus service when it takes me from where I am to
where I want to go, and picks me up when I have my coat on, no sooner
and not much later.

Doesn't matter, since this town has no bus service -- and can't have
any.  Mass transit works only when masses want to transit.


-- 
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net