[CliffFletcher]

Even before covid, the BRT was barely used. Most times I saw a bus go by on it, there were zero passengers. I don’t know what the projected ridership numbers were to justify the enormous cost, but I’m extremely skeptical they will ever be reached.

But as Slava says, what does that matter now? The money is spent. When another project like this is proposed going forward, some will champion it because public transit is good and should always be supported; some will oppose it because they’re nimbys who never use transit. And the metrics we should be using to assess it - the realistic cost/benefit projections - will either be too complicated for the public to understand, or skewed by interested parties to push their desired outcome.