{"id":811,"date":"2009-10-03T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2009-10-05T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:28:54","slug":"mayor-paves-continued-ass-covering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/mayor-paves-continued-ass-covering\/","title":{"rendered":"Repercussions of the Bus Fare Jacking: Mayor Pave’s Continued Ass-covering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Pave’s excuse-mongering continues wrt to decimating transit ridership in Madison.<\/a> In a blog post that would have made Big Brother proud, he boasts:<\/p>\n

…Metro [Magazine] reported that 65% of the top 100 transit operators reported that they were having difficulty providing service due to steady ridership demands and decreased funding. Not us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, not us. Not us because The Pavemeister jacked up fares so much that it drove away ridership. After year-over-year gains in ridership of 5-6% over the last 10 or so years, the mayor’s draconian 33% fare increase has been driving ridership down. The latest figures show losses of up to 2%. This, in an economy that makes car ownership prohibitive for more & more people.<\/p>\n

Yet the Greenwasher-in-Chief crows,<\/p>\n

Thanks to the tough but necessary budget decisions the Council and I have made [what a hero], I can now say for a certainty that my 2010 budget will contain no fare increases or service cuts for the bus system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…while ignoring the fact that no mayor in the last 20 years has cut bus service as much as he has over the last six.<\/p>\n

And no one in the DMSM has the guts enough–much less the analytical abilities–to call him on it.<\/p>\n


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Mayor Pave’s ass-covering after thrashing transit riders, killing ridership and slashing bus service.<\/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":[123,439],"tags":[95,21,184,29,492,334,28],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-transit","category-traffic-justice","tag-auto-centric","tag-greenwash","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-mayor-pave","tag-mayor-paves-blog","tag-transit","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}