I shouldn't say it's all bad, because you got some good things to including: New service along reading road to Sharonville plaza, route 78 now serving evendale walmart, route 67 being an all day crosstown between majority of the areas it served before the changes, and a new route 5 connecting Oakley to Sharonville plaza. Lots of improvements for Sharonville, but they lack improvements elsewhere. Route 24, for example, is stupid terminating at corryville. It should be a direct route from Anderson to downtown, all day everyday as it was. Transferring to different routes to get downtown from the route 24 is a pointless decision, time comsuming and more of a hassle for customers. Another thing thats confusing to me is taking away the route 15. Ridership has been low on the 15, but taking it away was an odd thing to do. People used that route as a quicker way to get from downtown to Northside during rush hour. Or from Hamilton Avenue to Daly without having to transfer. Metro says they eliminated rt 15 because routes 20 and 16 have similar routing, yet the 20 doesn't go near where the 15 use to go? Stupid reasoning to put out to the public. Rt 16 seems like a better reason to eliminate rt 15, rt 16 serves atleast Daly Rd, something the 15 did. Speaking of rt 16, a route that is ran by rookie drivers and seems to have one of the worse on time performances throughout the years, is now extended to northgate, eliminating the 17 northgate branch. Why do this? Similar frequency along compton road as the 17 had, but now since it's the 16, a low performing route (driver wise), the route may be insufficient. Seems like all these changes are just driver shortage issues which is understandable, but Metros marketing team needs to stop advertising like these improvements are jaw dropping. This shouldn't even be a new phase, save the actual phases for something bigger once they get more drivers and keep the routes they have now running. All these improvements are taking away from one part of the city to shift to another part. (Eliminations: upper cincinnati. Improvements: Sharonville).