Comment 108126

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted January 21, 2015 at 17:32:46

So, Councillor Collins will immediately vote a big increase in funding to help the HSR "address the problems of overcrowding, long delays on some routes, and poor ridership on others" to show that he supports improved transit, just not this particular bus lane? Or if another councillor votes to return service levels to those of the 1980s, will he strongly support it?

Or will he find other reasons to oppose increased funding and better service levels for the HSR?

It's not as if underfunding, overcrowding and poor ridership on HSR are new problems. The IBI operational review of the HSR was presented to council five years ago. Has Collins been championing at least some of their recommendations and working to allocate funding to implement them?

At some points Councillors who claim to support better transit need to actually support a transit initiative, with actual new City money, even when it annoys some drivers a bit.

Otherwise, its the same old bait and switch: "Let's look at BRT instead of LRT" becomes "I don't support BRT, all we need is express buses" becomes "I don't support express buses, lets just improve service frequency" becomes "We can't afford to spend money on more buses, let's just improve signalling" becomes "But this priority signalling confuses drivers, I can't support it."

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2015-01-21 17:36:34

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