Seems the downward trend is being driven by off-peak ridership nearly everywhere. Electeds who claim to be worried about this need to get busy funding weekend service at decent frequencies, unlike today.https://twitter.com/TransitCenter/status/955499555092615168 …
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<--this. Cuts are less relevant if the baseline is crappy service.
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The problem is that the 2016 pattern on the subway in New York is really not consistent with the Uber siphoning theory.
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I've been skeptical about the Uber theory, but only because of info I had read from Boston--what's the catch re: NY?
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I think one can say both "It's not all Uber's fault" and "crappy off-peak service is a big driver of ridership loss"
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yes--in general i think transit providers want it to be uber's fault because then they can avoid blame
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Yes. Convenient bogeyman. In the same way that TNCs play that role in the "OMG congestion!" debate. They're not helpful, per se, but they're also not the core problem.
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Maybe now we can finally start offering a standard timetable for all seven days of the week
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