Government is a criminal enterprise. Everything that Indygo has been doing over the last decade was a brazen attempt to get bigger by stealing more money. As I told many people, the best that could happen is that they double ridership - under perfect conditions - and that would have no impact on anyone else beyond the deleterious financial and infrastructure expansion (future maintenance headaches intended to extract more money from the unrealized gains of property owners. I ride Indygo and know it well. It is an option only because of where I live - four bus routes are within 1/4 mile of my house so I used it for work and occasionally when stranded (car breaks down, etc). Their "expansion" was always going to be nothing more than a boondoggle - in addition to being a pain in the rear to motorists who use the same routes.
Government is a criminal enterprise. Everything that Indygo has been doing over the last decade was a brazen attempt to get bigger by stealing more money. As I told many people, the best that could happen is that they double ridership - under perfect conditions - and that would have no impact on anyone else beyond the deleterious financial and infrastructure expansion (future maintenance headaches intended to extract more money from the unrealized gains of property owners. I ride Indygo and know it well. It is an option only because of where I live - four bus routes are within 1/4 mile of my house so I used it for work and occasionally when stranded (car breaks down, etc). Their "expansion" was always going to be nothing more than a boondoggle - in addition to being a pain in the rear to motorists who use the same routes.