By: Diane Benajmin
Connect Transit packet with a lot less information than they used to post: https://connect-transit.com/file/4720/2026%2009%2022_Board%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf
We used to see what their highly paid consultants reported. Not anymore.
Meanwhile, ridership shows down in August while buses are operating more hours. Guess where the money comes from to pay these operating losses?
July loss:
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August loss:
CT has an IGA, similar to the Mental Health IGA, which CT is failing to abide by.
Why aren’t the City and Town investigating that quasi-governmental group of non-elected people?
Connect transit is spending like drunken sailors, expanding routes, growing losses, all on the taxpayer dime (only 8% of expenses are covered by fares charged to riders).
They sure love spending the money of taxpayers who don’t ride their buses.
It’s the same across the country. $40 trillion in debt was planned
Everyone connected with the finances of Connect Transit thinks we have a money tree. You don’t know that our money tree did not bear fruit this year and they don’t care. It keeps loses large sums of money.