Comment 37680

By A Smith (anonymous) | Posted February 02, 2010 at 00:04:26

lukev >> The bus I was on this morning had twice as many people in it than there were seats.

And if the HSR was a real business, it would respond by running more buses so as not to annoy their customers. It's not as if the city doesn't know that more people ride the bus during the day, so why is there always a shortage of seats on the busiest routes?

>> In what way is maintaining these streets, which are hardly used except for a few hours a day, a good use of money?

When cars aren't traveling on the road, how much damage is being done to them? I would suggest zero. In contrast, when buses are running with very few people on them, they still require lots of gasoline, maintenance and salaries for the drivers.

If the city was interested in keeping costs down, it could. So why should other levels of government, who have their own spending priorities, lavish Hamilton with funds when HSR managers waste it. If Hamilton made even a weak attempt at becoming more efficient, it could likely bring the subsidy down from $30M to $15M in a short period of time. If this were the case, we would be in a much better position to argue for more transit funding, since we would be using each dollar of funding to produce more customer value than we do today.

Would you want to give money to someone who wasted it? I wouldn't. But if that person used it wisely, I would want to give them more.

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