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Originally Posted by Eightball
Walker style bus redesigns are normally a failure. ie Houston, the one Baltimore just did is a disaster etc
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Houston and Baltimore bus ridership is holding roughly steady, compared to large declines in nearly all other US cities. In the US in 2018, holding roughly steady is a big win.
Anybody who expects Walkerization to transform transit in a city will be disappointed. It's a marginal improvement that raises efficiency a few percent, for free. That's all.
In Baltimore it *did* improve operations, efficiency, and ridership (compared to the decline trend). It's a *political* disaster because the governor of Maryland sold it as the only thing Baltimore transit would need to be great, which is obviously incorrect. Walkerization is the first thing every city should do, but it's not the only thing. Baltimore cancelled a very high ridership subway proposal that was funded and ready to go, and made the Walkerization that was supposed to be only a complementary improvement the only thing they did.