[PRCo] Heard on PBS

[Fred Schneider]

Food for thought.
Two rather curious things on Morning Edition on National Public Radio
this morning:

1.  Did not catch all of this ... but it was a proposition to raise the
cable car fares in San Francisco to $5.00 a pop in September.   If my
calculations are correct that the average cost of a transit ride
(including all subsidies) is in the $7 to $8 range, then charging the
tourists a premium to ride makes sense.  Maybe not the federal share,
but billing the tourists for the state and local share sounds reasonable
to me.

2.  The convoluted paths our money takes was exemplified by a
sponsorship announcement on Morning Edition ... brought to you by the
American Public Transit Association.  So that's how we get tax money to
fund public radio?  The government subsidizes transit, which pays dues
to APTA, which in turn forwards part of it to National Public Radio.
How many transit properties have we heard complaining that they are
underfunded?

Fred Schneider