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Updated, 10:38 a.m., 6/10/19 The past few years have been tough for transit in Northeast Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has cut routes and raised fares, all while ridership continues to fall. Transit advocates call it the 鈥渄eath spiral.鈥 Jarrett Walker, the consultant hired to help RTA redesign bus routes, said the service is 鈥渟tretched incredibly thin.鈥 鈥淚t isn鈥檛 really able to be very satisfactory to much of anyone,鈥 Walker said, 鈥渂ecause it is simply being asked to do too many things with too small a budget.鈥