Tangential, but this ties in to part of what made me so mad about that WSJ article a few weeks back that claimed Denver has America's "emptiest downtown:" that is true by exactly one metric (commercial real estate vacancy rate) that is not very illustrative in the post-COVID era.
PMC Vanguardist
transit doomers: everyone is working from home now, nobody is taking commuter rail
transit bloomers: off-peak and weekend demand is up, people are tired of driving everywhere
🏳️⚧️ wifeguys for steyer 🔰♨️
Hennessey says increased post-COVID work-from-home has doomed Metrolink. But Metrolink has gained riders by adding off-peak service, while failing to add service to meet growing weekend demand, which is 80% of weekday. Looming cuts to weekend service are not inevitable, but would doom Metrolink.
