{"id":617,"date":"2009-08-16T22:07:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:11:43","slug":"mayor-pave-kills-bus-ridership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/mayor-pave-kills-bus-ridership\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Pave Kills Bus Ridership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gee, ya think<\/a>? The MSM finally catches up to what we’ve all been saying would happen for years now, and most especially during the last budget cycle when Mayor Pave rammed through a draconian 33% increase in bus fares. Fares go up; ridership goes down. It’s the ol’ supply & demand. Econ 101, people. <\/p>\n

But the MSM never would have noticed it had former alder–and Mayor Pave’s b\u00eate noir– Brenda Konkel not posted her analysis<\/a> last Friday. Once again, the intrepid blogging masses are driving the news cycle and keeping lazy journalists<\/a> in check. I mean, that article was sheer sycophancy. Not one person outside of the mayor’s circle was quoted. I’m predicting that Joe Tarr will be the next communications director for Mayor Pave.<\/p>\n

In any case, looking at the numbers on ridership, I said as much in an Isthmus<\/em> column<\/a> last year before budget time:<\/p>\n

The loss of bus ridership due to rising fares and declining service means more congestion, longer commute times and less available parking for everyone who drives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A lot of us said as much. Too bad we’ve got a mayor who is incapable of listening. To sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected Mayor Pave’s bus fare increases drove ridership down. MSM finally gets the story straight, thanks to some blogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12,123],"tags":[95,351,21,349,350,353,7,29,99,30,352],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-public-transit","tag-auto-centric","tag-dean-mosiman","tag-greenwash","tag-isthmus-newspaper","tag-joe-tarr","tag-madison-metro","tag-madison-wisconsin-politics","tag-mayor-pave","tag-superhighway-stalinism","tag-transit-parking-commission","tag-wisconsin-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}