MTA is boasting about it's ridership gains...

City New Service MTA Ridership Gains-Pasadena Weekly

This is MTA patting itself on the back, for ridership gains since Covid...

Of course, this 950,000, or so, daily riders is only about 500,000 less daily riders than the nearly 1.5 million daily riders MTA carried in 2014, and is less than half of what SCRTD carried during the 1984 Olympics on a "bus only" system...

Safety and service issues remain big problems, and MTA still lacks a clear or coherent focus on basicslike security and operations, which have cause much of this loss.

While there has been a recognition of the safety and security issues, and some steps to improve safety and security, much of it has been a reactive response, and not as proactive as it should be.

The huge losses of daily riders because of the MTA's poor service problems (massive route cuts, service cuts, poor and unreliable service frequencies, longer wait times...) still seems to be something that MTA's management has refused to recognize (maybe because so many bad service changes came from this management team????)...

The fact is that the services frequencies on the Gold line are less, resulting in wait times, now 20% longer, than they were when the line opened in 2003. And the fact is that the massive cuts to buses, eliminating many routes, and less frequent bus services, making for longer waits, with fewer and poorer connections, are also a major reason for some of the losses in daily MTA ridership.

Contractors and big ticket projects too often seem to be more important to the MTA Board and management than how we operate what we are building, and serve the people we are supposed to be building these projects for...