[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh - think tank blasts possible new transit taxes

[Joshua Dunfield]

John Swindler wrote:
> The Transportation Reform commission recommended no new spending on 
> transportation until a number of reforms implemented.  Instead, you (any 
> resident of PA) are getting $300 million in additional taxpayer spending on 
> transit operations without any reforms.  The recent legislation might as 
> well be called the Bus drivers full employment act of 2007.

Could you explain how not making even more service cuts means full
employment for bus drivers?  And even if it did mean that, how is that
worth mentioning?  The main issue is the service itself.

BTW, the TFRC also said:

    Comparative analysis shows that Pennsylvania transit agencies receive
    less public funding on a per passenger basis than the average of peer
    agencies across the country.

Less.  Not more.  What do bus drivers elsewhere in the country have,
120% employment?

-j.