I've got to be honest. I'm not sold on Microtransit as the best use of scarce Metro dollars. Of course, who doesn't like the idea of a $1 Uber? I get why the riders who use it like it. But with Metro paying $43 dollars a ride, and with transit operating dollars so scarce, I just cannot help but wonder about this. Only 19% of its users take it to get to main transit lines What do you think?
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/the-1-ride-that-costs-metro-43-is-this-pilot-van-program-worth-the-costs
@danwentzel Los Angeles has a last mile problem more acute any place on earth.* The only way to get more transit dollars is for transit to get used, and the only way for transit to get used is if they increase the catchment area of their metro stations beyond the standard half mile radius. LA metro needs this program, no matter how inefficient, to have enough ridership to justify the next step.
* - to spite what "downtown LA" developers will tell you the LA area doesn't have a city center. Transit works on the idea that lots of people hare headed to the same place, and that is just not how LA works. Also, yes Huston we see you.
