Diesel Cafe closes at 11:30, starting April 16

[ron_newman]

A sign at Diesel regretfully announces that they will close at 11:30 pm every night, starting next Monday.

They say they aren't getting enough business during that last half hour, and that the current midnight closing makes it hard for staff to get home on public transportation after cleaning up for the night.

Comments

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

At the time, I heard the rumor that when deciding the revenue brought in by the night own busses, they didn't count monthly passholders. Because, y'know, they've already got all the money they were going to get from us.

Anyone know?

[ron_newman]

I don't know. It is true that monthly passholders didn't add revenue when they took Night Owl buses. Later the Night Owl bus fare was raised, and monthly passes were no longer valid on them. This is consistent with the practice in Amsterdam, for instance.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

But it's a logical fallacy. They have no way of knowing -- and to my knowledge, never even attempted to find out -- how much having that service available influenced people's decisions to buy monthly passes in the first place. Especially given that the passes aren't really that great of a deal, it's not correct to not count them.

Then they complain about declining ridership.