Today about 3:45 I'm heading west on University Dr, right at Northgate. While stopped at one of the many lights, I notice a Brazos Transit bus, also westbound, now painted with a maroon stripe in lieu of the normal green strip. It's a purty, big new bus...
It exits onto Wellborn, going north.

What's not different, is there was not a single passenger/rider..nada, zip, no one but the lonely driver.

What a gigantic, colossal sinkhole for federal and state tax dollars....

(Yes, I'm aware, on occasion, sometimes...the buses on Texas Ave actually have a few riders..didja know their local budget exceeds $12,000,000.00?)

From Sep 2014---""We would like to see an increase in $18 million in operations, but that would have to come from general revenue, and I just don't think that's in the cards because general revenue in Austin is a very precious commodity -- it's like diamonds," said President/CEO of the Brazos Transit District John McBeth."
We need more tax $$$...Mcbeth

We might as well bring back the green and brown trollys held together with elmers glue since the management is so intent on wasting that 12 mil. A good thread TY OP.

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I followed one from Madisonville the other day that had no riders.

If you calculated all the costs, you could probably give everyone that rides the buses a coupon of some sort to ride a Uber vehicle and save money.

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You could probably give each rider their own car

I don't know what Uber costs, but if we assume that the average charge is $20, you could take 600,000 persons around town annually...that is 1,643 trips a day, 365 days a year... equal to 821 round trip rides daily.

I will bet right now that nowhere near that many ride the buses daily. It's probably in the few hundreds.

What does a Uber ride of four or five miles cost?

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That's a great idea about Uber certificates! At least people would actually use them instead of empty busses driving around.

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I would vote for this.. but I live in CS so doesn't matter I guess.

Nm