By: Diane Benjamin The Connect Transit Board didn’t meet in December, so January 26, 2021 the Board will review November and December 2020. They finally achieved breaking through the $1,000,000 operating loss and did it both months: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pH-FJxYfLWtjHzbnh98Ge3P6El4HURHu/view November 2020: December 2020: EVERY DOLLAR for “Assistance” is money government took from somebody who earned it. […]
By: Diane Benjamin https://www.connect-transit.com/documents/Board%20Packet%201-28-20.pdf Connect Transit didn’t meet for a regular meeting in December, so November and December are reported together for the 1/28/2020 meeting. November 2019 loss – PDF page 8 December 2019 loss – PDF page 14 Every person that rides costs around 4 times more than the person riding is paying: (PDF […]
By: Diane Benjamin From Connect Transit’s October report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1anF4rCMlP7zqbGQ3vM1EE6PhNz-FaJ9x/view PDF page 14 Ridership Increasing! Problem? Those 225,646 generated less than $100,000. The first chart only reflects Fixed Routes, not Connect Mobility. Of course there is more to the story: See this link for October 2016: PDF page 20 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4zAZemF_qQuZEhveVl3aVMzakE/view Total Operating Revenue with fewer riders […]
By: Diane Benjamin See the September report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4zAZemF_qQuX0JzckFHNFZJV1k/view Revenue from riders doesn’t come close to pay the wages of the employees: The total operating loss appears to not be a red flag for anybody: Government can’t come up with a way to transport people without losing $833,895 in one month? The loss […]
