anb
Active Member
UP Express also getting a little service change. I guess we have to just live with it and put on an act to act like this is all ok..
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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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LNahid2000
Senior Member
Andy_in_Toronto
Active Member
Response from GO transit by personnel Twitter message regarding their modest increase in service.
Undead
Senior Member
But it's a bit of a catch 22/self fulfilling prophecy, no? Without improved service, ridership won't grow. Unless, of course, that's the plan lol.
Encun
New Member
“As we see increases in ridership” - it’s hard to believe they’re not seeing ridership rebound with the piles of tweets and experiences on the contrary. Even harder to believe when they are super opaque and don’t provide the public with data backing up their claims. Not to mention that they could absolutely increase service anyways to improve the lives of transit users and give a break on high gas prices.
I don’t understand the strategy to DM someone on Twitter. Do they know it’s too BS to say to the general public on Twitter? If so then why bother DMing at all, instead of staying silent.
I’m so frustrated at this obvious political move to save big increases for a photo-op around election time.
Krypto98
Active Member
It's like the PCs and Libs are addicted to huge unnecessary photo-ops
ARG1
Senior Member
Its almost like announcing shiny things is good for your re-election chances
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Very likely the decision-makers don't use GO Transit, or public transit, in general. So they do not "see" the ridership increase.
anb
Active Member
We should throw all of them on the London or Niagara bound rush hour train mixed with other riders, having public transit as their only option, and see if they’ll still stick to their decision.
Fritter
Active Member
Well with election time near, maybe it's time to start asking current MPP's what's going on at Metrolinx? We need Government members to publicly defend their agency and opposition members publicly grill Government members about these decisions.
If, as speculated, this is all about making good news at a certain date to improve election outcomes, then I would assume any negative discussion in the public realm about Government agency decisions would not be looked favorably by PC members.
If, as speculated, this is all about making good news at a certain date to improve election outcomes, then I would assume any negative discussion in the public realm about Government agency decisions would not be looked favorably by PC members.
sixrings
Senior Member
I watch Thomas shunt cars daily with ease. Perhaps Sir Topham Hatt could get more productivity out of these trains.
Bureaucromancer
Active Member
”How dare you say we’re holding back service. We’re merely not providing it”.
robmausser
Senior Member
anb
Active Member
Seems like GO's board invited YRT's board to dinner one evening and started discussing about how they could make the service be just like them. And then drank a couple shots and went with whatever YRT said without hesitation.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
"we are making revolutionary changes to our service to shift towards a frequent-transit core network by reducing frequencies on our third-busiest bus route from 33 minutes 32.5 minutes"
-YRT GO TRANSIT
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