Some are clearly from people who not only don't ride any buses themselves, but also don't know where any of the routes even go
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A huge portion of commentary has been obviously whipped up by the five colleges, doing their basic duty of manufacturing public opinion
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(who’s the “them” in this? Hardly monolithic; more a class thing?)
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Do you mean the people submitting comments? It's all sorts--a lot of students and faculty/staff, a lot of residents, a lot of riders
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the comments in the Northampton June 29 had a lot of people disbelieving the low ridership of the M40; ignoring the empty reverse buses
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That's part of the picture, the other part is that "affected riders" figures refer not to ridership but individual customers...
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...ie, a person who rides the M40 twice a day is counted as a single affected rider. I don't agree w this way of counting but wasn't my call
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most riders take the same bus both ways? So this shouldn't change the order much
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right, the relative impact of each cut vis-a-vis the others would be unchanged if we counted trips
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But, most people's impressions of ridership are based on trips, so the numbers look dishonestly low to most people (including me)
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Not that it ultimately makes a difference, since *a cut is a cut is a cut* and nobody has yet stepped up to offer to pay our budget gap
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my impression is the M40 is expensive to run as the reverse runs empty. Could its reverse trip could be local and replace a B43?
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is it too late to submit public comments via e-mail?
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Not at all--you have until the 11th to send them in
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