[PRCo] Re: Heard on PBS

[Harold G.]

GREETINGS TO ALL.  CHARGING THE TOURISTS MORE IS OK
ITS LIKE GOING TO DISNEY.

HOWEVER...WATCH OUT   THEY WILL WANT TO CHARGE
MORE ON THE F PCC.

QUESTION TO JIM...FOR REGULAR RIDERS, IS THE
MUNI PASS GOOD ON THE CABLE?  THERE ARE SUCH
RIDERS.

HAROLD GEISSENHEIMER
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Heard on PBS


>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
>
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