Regional policies to increase transit ridership are unevenly funded — and may not produce the desired results anyway.
Those are among the findings of an audit released by Metro Auditor Suzanne Flynn on Wednesday. It was unveiled as regional planners are preparing to approve further study of the next high-capacity transit corridor in the region, a new line between Portland and Tualatin that could cost up to $3.1 billion.
Flynn’s audit focused on three MAX stations. It found that public investment in the quarter-mile around the stations varied tremendously during the past eight years, and that the station with the lowest investment nevertheless experienced the greatest ridership increase.
Furthermore, the audit found that most frequent riders at the stations were not influenced by other public efforts to increase transit ridership. In fact, the audit found, different factors were more likely to influence their decisions to ride public transit.
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