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Park might become a UTA parking lot
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Right now a monthly adult UTA pass costs $67 per month. It currently costs me $26 to fill up my tank and one tank typically lasts me 2 weeks. I have free parking both at work and at home. Adding in a $30 oil change every 3 months basically equates to a cost of $31 per tank of gas.
I still come out $5 ahead per month and am not at the mercy of UTA's schedule...as the commute actually would take me 40mins longer each way on UTA.
So UTA - why would I ever want to be your customer? You've yet to prove to me why I benefit from purchasing your product.
The ONLY thing that will force them to be "part of the community" is if local leaders start looking over their shoulder. Something, up to now, they just haven't done.
"That side of the park, owned by West Valley City, isn't part of the ongoing UTA discussions. However, its picnic tables and full-grown trees would be affected by a parking lot going up across the river."
How exactly, does a parking lot across the river affect picnic tables?
You neglected to include the subsidy cost of the UTA, and you ignore the fact that, under the UTA's current routing and scheduling, one is required to own and maintain a private vehicle, so the automobile still comes out way ahead.
Public transit will never be cost competitive in the US, largely because for the past 80 years urbanization has grown around the automobile -- for good or bad. UTA knew this when they started.
Public transit in Utah will never succed as long as the UTA keeps pretending to be a viable business. Once they (and the Legislature) accept that they will always run at a significant loss, maybe they can begin to serve their non-driver riders. If, over time, UTA can prove itself a reliable alternative to automobile owndership, perhaps ridership will go up and stay up?
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