Austinist: Hats Off, Austin: Nearly 700,000 Off The Road So Far!

rlcauvin

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:02:52 -0600

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ducknutz

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:48:58 -0600

I love and use public transportation as much as the next duck, but this is a little deceiving: Over 675,000 more people rode Cap Metro buses this year than in 2007 The population of Austin is under a million, and I see more cars on the road than ever before. A better use of words would be: "Cap Metro use is up by 675,000 this year than in 2007"... or something like that... If I didn't have to use a car all day, I'd go back to taking the bus. I'd pay a higher fare, too, especially if they increased the routes or amount of buses on the road.

mdahmus

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:09:31 -0600

The buses don't go down 360 mainly because Westlake and Rollingwood decided they weren't happy with the fact that Austin subsidizes their streets enough already; they also needed to put their thumb in our eye by not funding Capital Metro. To say nothing of Round Rock - who's starting their own private bus service to drop people off at a CM P&R, at which point we get to subsidize their transit users in addition to their motorists.

CamronR

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:05 -0600

I'd take the bus if they went down 360.

acastand

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:51:46 -0600

One unwelcome change: expect a 75-cent increase in local fares after the summer. But they haven't raised fares in 25 years...I think it's a fair increase. (pun intended)