Northeast Ohioans see the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority as essential, frustrating, underfunded and, at times, dangerously unreliable, according to nearly 300 of our readers.
Most people did not call for abandoning the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. Instead, they described a system stuck in a downward spiral of declining service, aging infrastructure, staffing shortages and eroding public confidence — one that many believe Cleveland cannot afford to lose.
My prompt centered on a chaotic Saturday night downtown, when Cleveland hosted a Cavaliers playoff game, a Guardians game and a Zach Bryan concert that drew more than 60,000 people to the Browns stadium. One reader described “no trains, broken ticket machines… one overwhelmed guy ‘trying to find a driver to work overtime to bring another train’ … and hundreds of people stuck trying to find ride shares.”…