Ridership as a goal means designing a transit system that maximizes the number of people using it, building transit where most convenient.
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Replying to @380kmh
If you followed my earlier thread, you know this means the coverage goal is based on the loyalty sense, the ridership goal on transactions
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Replying to @380kmh
Where government is involved in transit it will--as an institution premised on loyalty to its people and their loyalty to it--seek coverage
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Replying to @380kmh
USgov funded rail projects disturbing - occurring in areas with dwindling potential ridership #'s, shows DISLOYALTY toward taxpayers
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Replying to @MAGApupper
building transit where potential ridership is dwindling *demonstrates* their coverage bias; yes, it sucks for taxpayers
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Replying to @380kmh
if coverage already tended to exist in high ridership areas it would be mere bias. As things are - some would call it sabotage
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Replying to @MAGApupper
yeah, the other side of politicization of transit is that it becomes a weapon to use against constituencies
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Replying to @380kmh @MAGApupper
transit becomes something you can bestow or withhold, if budgeting is scarce (typical in coverage systems!) then...
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Replying to @380kmh @MAGApupper
...you can expect groups with little political clout to get shafted in favor of more connected groups
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Replying to @380kmh
these things have been true since the dawn of transit, but taxpayers accepted these realities since the service was for them
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correction: they've been true since transit became a government endeavor paid for by taxpayers
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