Transit: no new services

Public transit is facing a five‑year slump with no new money and a big deficit.

The Gazette has a gloomy piece citing an expert saying our transit system is in a death spiral. (Actually, the expert says “downward spiral” but “death” makes for a more clickbaity headline.)

In tangential news, there’s a report Wednesday of an attack on a woman by three teenage girls in February in an STM bus, and the failure of the STM to provide video evidence. Fo Niemi is cited here so the story may have a racial aspect, although it isn’t spelled out.