Metro bus cuts looming

The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. There is definitely an epidemic of reports that the sky is falling, and RantWoman is not even going near her opinions about how to tack it back up.

The landscape will soon be overrun by zombie banks. If we keep giving them more and more money, they will still be zombie banks, but....

The nation's infrastructure is crumbling but projects to fix it must be shovel-ready and that sounds better than investing in transit to make better use of multiple kinds of infrastructure.

The state has no money and the governor uses words like "dire." Too bad she does not use words like "fair taxation."

The county and therefore Metro has no money and there are suggestions of 20% cuts in service. RantWoman's bus service prognosticator function is broken, but she hopes anyone contemplating cuts to service will read the Municipal League Report on Metro and make cuts in the places with the highest cost per rider or maybe the highest cost per rider mile. RantWoman suspects this might make some people in the hinterlands howl. RantWoman is also aware that Metro interacts with several municipalities and transit agencies and that different horse-trading occurs on different questions. In short, the sky is probably falling somewhere. RantWoman is not prepared to fly into full panic mode quite yet, but she does recommend that anyone who rides the bus or uses Access, the paratransit service find the online comments section at
transit.metrokc.gov/ to tell Metro how much bus service means to you. If you leave your name and contact info, Metro might gratefully contact you too.