Muni's outreach for the meeting consisted of placing Chinese-only posters in buses in February (they're still up, BTW) and mailing out "several" flyers. According to the report, "staff expected 60-80 youth ... however, the final count of attendance included 17 Youth Commissioners and 21 other participants." Sounds like a party!

Astoundingly, the meeting organizers discovered that the twenty-one people who had nothing better to do in the middle of a weekday than attend transit forums . Cheaper Fast Passes for youth were voted as a top priority ... for youths. Other points of interest: more buses and politer drivers. Meeting facilitators documented that young riders are more likely to ride buses if they are less crowded. In fact, they're eighteen billion percent more likely.

Ha ha, just kidding -- nobody collected any actual figures. In fact, less crowded buses might actually make students less likely to ride. We'll never know, since the "market research" didn't actually probe consumer behavior. Just because kids say that it's what they want doesn't mean that they actually want it; after all, New Coke did great in focus groups. Hey, there's a slogan for you -- Muni: Like New Coke, Only With Less Corroborating Data!

like the idea of spending less money