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Start Charging a fare and your ridership will drop like a rock-
The Cincinnati Bell Connector’s ridership is plummeting, with barely half the projected ridership last month.
Overall, ridership is 53 percent above expectations. But a closer look at the numbers day-by-day shows declining ridership since it opened Sept. 9 and troublesome weekday numbers that need attention.
John Schneider, one of the leading advocates for getting the streetcar built, expressed concern and called for immediate fixes. His grade to the city so far: B-.
“I would hate to think we carried this down to the one-yard line and fumbled,” Schneider said. “It needs to be reliable for people who have to use it every day.”
Paul Grether, rail manager for the streetcar operator, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, presented the numbers to Council’s Major Transportation Committee Tuesday, saying his agency is working to fix issues. The committee is set to get monthly updates.
The biggest problem: Streetcar timing is off and that means nobody knows when it will arrive at a station. On weekends, that’s n
Every month I am in Kansas City staying at the Westin Crown Center for a week I use the street car sometimes to transit to a restaurant to eat dinner and agree they could use more to cut down on the wait time.