Many people tried to participate. They flooded social media with pictures taken on rail or bus lines and spoke positively about the trip or two they’d made, but the reality was, no one was able to meet every travel need without help from a personal car.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The challenge was for Cuyahoga County public officials and their staff to rely exclusively on public transit to get around for a week, but it proved easier said than done.to help those who allocate local funding better understand some of the struggles riders face daily since services have been cut by about 30% over the years.
RTA is predominately funded by a 1% sales tax on goods and services sold in the county, but revenues haven’t been enough to maintain and upgrade services, especially amid population and ridership declines. Martin believes officials should either find ways to fund services out of their own budgets or support RTA putting a sales tax increase on the ballot to fill in funding gaps.
There were 835 employees who requested a pass, which Ronayne hopes might later encourage more participation in the county’s discounted monthly commuter program. The county currently offers the $95 monthly RTA passes to employees for around $20. “I appreciated the challenge exactly for that reason,” Ronayne said. “We are a very hub-and-spoke, streetcar community historically, which means we have solid transit lines in commercial corridors but...as the lines travel outward, the spaces in between are more difficult to access by transit.”
The 2021 “Next Gen” bus system redesign was a step in the right direction, bringing 177,000 more residents within walking distance to transit and connecting them to 11% more jobs, Martin said. But figures show RTA gave 19 million rides in 2022, nearly a third of the 60 million rides it was reporting in the mid-2000s.
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