Core Routes Denied Increases

The fall schedules are now available online, if you use route schedule search, and use a September date. Looking over them quickly, it appears that once again most of the money will be wasted on suburban routes while the core routes get little or no service increases. The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 150 are all running overcrowded in rush hour, and weekday midday. However, instead of boosting these routes to frequencies beyond 15 minutes in rush hour, they are left alone so that new midday service can be added to Blackburn, Miller, Britnell, and Terwilleger Towne and Rutherford can get late night service. This is a disturbing trend, where the routes that carry the majority of the systems passengers get denied increases. While it is important to ensure geographic coverage of the city by transit, there have to be priorities, and providing service to suburbanites who will view it only as an "emergency service" to use when the car breaks down should not priority over providing service to those who will actually use it, and deserve better than an overcrowded bus showing up 10 minutes late.