This is sad.
With all the hope that the Brio system brought ridership is down significantly across Sun Metro’s system.
The mass transit director’s presentation from their July 2015 board meeting was attached to their agenda for the meeting.
The numbers are for the first three quarters of their physical year (ending May, 2015).
What we can see is an almost 15% decrease in ridership for the first three fourths of the year. Costs per trip are up 12%. Safety as well as on time service both deteriorated.
The buses run on natural gas. Gas prices have been declining, yet our costs are still higher.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Sorry, just a pet peeve. It îs FISCAL not physical year.
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Tim, thanks for the catch. That was carelessness.
Brutus
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It’s probably a function of age, old dog. :- )
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So if you follow the the Brio Bus up and down Mesa street you can make more green lights…just saying.
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And, yes, I suppose we do deserve better. But, I really don’t pay much attention to Sun Metro since I have not had occasion to ride a city bus in El Paso since about 1966, and at that time, buses in this town were all privately owned and operated. I do know that providing any sort of public transportation in a town as spread out as this one has to be a major headache, and I wonder what would happen if we did what Arlington, Texas, does. As big as that city is, they still lack any kind of public transportation. That’s right. No city owned buses, or trolleys, or trains. And, not a lot of sidewalks, either, now that I think of it.
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