They stand to lose quite a bit. It's important that funding does continue, because ridership is returning at different speeds across the country. Sherbrooke is at 102%. Brampton is at 115%. Those systems need to grow. Other systems.... I'm thinking about where workers haven't been recalled to our downtowns. It's affecting our economy, so it's important that transit systems be maintained.
In our larger centres where there are connections between cities, it's important that those be strengthened. The cost of not doing so.... It took 18 years after several budget cuts in the 1990s for ridership to return to where it was prepandemic.