County transit agency is evolving to meet demand

Reason’s Baruch Feigenbaum raised some good points in a recent column in these pages regarding declining transit ridership, and for more than two years now, OCTA has been working to implement many of the measures he suggests could help turn the trend around.
Changes in employment, demographics, housing and technology have all contributed to a 30 percent drop in O.C. bus ridership following the Great Recession, a trend being mirrored throughout the nation. For decades, ridership had closely