I remember reading studies showing the bendy buses often aren't actually used to capacity on many routes, and throughput only requires normal-sized buses for the most part.
Obvious exclusions are the high-capacity routes like the 6 or 7.
Great work on this!
So your argument is this:
1. The councillors see a massive funding gap.
2. They don’t bother for operational waste.
3. Instead, they advocate for tax increases, despite its unpopularity.
Come on, man. It’s horseshit. There is no waste, you can’t actually name anything besides “overtime”.
Under two weeks of notice for an entire weekend of outages is brutal.
I can’t imagine where I’ve heard “We’re eliminating waste fraud and abuse” before.
You’re going to end up cutting services. The fact you thinking you’ve got a better idea than the councillors is laughable - unless you think they’re all corrupt and turning a blind eye?
The service enhancement section of their own graph is paltry compared to needed renewals.
Greenfield development accounts for a similar chunk of the costs.
This is true currently, but given Ottawas apparent interest in piecemeal, gradual changes, having the option now for a later Bronson street reconfiguration isn’t too bad.
Come on. The reason the next council "has to decide" what to do is because YOU VOTED to defer that decision to the next council rather than dealing with the issue now. YOU VOTED to continue to defer maintenance and YOU VOTED for the low tax increases that have kept us in this mess.
Matt
North York as planners planned.
(via FutureModelTO / Stephen Velasco)
