Kitsap Transit rant

[opcoded]

If there was any more clue I needed to move out of Bremerton, the local transit agency here just voted to cut Sunday service COMPLETELY starting February 15th. Which means no more going to Seattle on Saturday nights because I won't be able to get home unless I can find someone to pick me up from the ferry, or move into a place in downtown Bremerton.

The amount of incompetence in the transit agency here is astounding. There's a lot of high-level management at Kitsap Transit making WAY more than they should be, and they're not taking ANY cuts at the management level at all.

Plus, they just voted to raise the fares another 50 cents (from $1.50 to $2 a trip). While I don't have a problem with that, it just means they're going to save cutting even more service until they run out of money for their budget again.

A few years ago, they were running busses every half hour. They eventually cut back service so it was running every hour, and then earlier this year cut out most of their late evening trips due to low ridership. It's bad enough that they don't run busses until 8am and they pretty much stop after 8pm, but these cuts are not happening where they should be - on the executive level.

Okay, rant over.

Comments

[prince.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with Kitsap Transit... what a disaster. On my phone's address book, my photo for them is a car trapped under a bus.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLW3OiH8OQ

At 30 seconds, you'll see a Kitsap Transit bus on it's way to East Bremerton enter the picture.

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

In NYC it's getting bad too. They're pushing the fare price up to $2.50 (from $2, even though they raised it from $1.75 in 2003) and the monthly pass to $100 (from $81), and lowering the amount of buses and trains in service. Who wouldn't want to pay more for less! >.>