Your community isn't dense enough to justify using scarce transit operating funds to serve it. Providing service to your community would probably decrease overall ridership.
"Huh? If my neighborhood or City Council district represent, say, 10% of the population, then why shouldn't we get 10% of the service?"
It would …
[MORE]Yesterday, Mayor Adler invited me to discuss transportation with the new Austin City Council. I encouraged Council to pursue policies that would increase Austin's transit mode share from our current 4%. Increasing the use of public transportation would help ameliorate the pain Austinites endure from traffic congestion, as well as …
[MORE]CapMetro should release monthly ridership, financial, and performance data in an analysis-friendly format.
What data is useful?
One can quickly tell if a public sector organization is committed to transparent performance management by the quality of their public reporting. My personal "brown M …
[MORE]CapMetro's Board should utilize transit ridership and transit mode share to evaluate the performance of CapMetro's CEO. Evaluation should focus on the public value created by the executive's actions.
How does one determine "value"?
There's a general consensus amongst transportation academics, practitioners, and activists that there are factors external to …
[MORE]CapMetro bus ridership has remained stagnant for over 15 years even as Austin experienced substantial population growth and bus spending significantly increased. Land use reform by the City and a service strategy shift at CapMetro can end the ridership stagnation era.
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