Markster
Senior Member
This is where my growing concern is. This province is spending billions of dollars on a bunch of transit lines that have that very same objective....that is change your behaviour. Don't drive to Port Credit or Cooksville GO...take the LRT! Hamiltonians, get on the LRT! Everyone coming to Toronto, ditch the car and get on one of those GO trains that will be every 15 minutes each direction! etc.
Those LRT lines are local transit first, and regional connectors second. They already have a captive market in the bus routes they're going to be replacing, and it's not unfair to expect that a more comfortable service (LRT) at the same price will attract more people than the bus it is replacing. The closest thing the UPX had to a direct predecessor folded in recent years, and they clearly overestimated how much a 25 minute ride to Union was worth.
People do change their behaviour, but they change it rationally, after considering convenience, and cost.