[PRCo] Port Authority

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

I just stumbled across this didn't I - just stumbled across it.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/02/the_bankruptcy_of_mass_transit?page=full&comments=true

Here is a quote from above:

"A while ago I came across some figures for the Port Authority from the
early 1980s. Ridership then was about 100 million a year; it had about
2,800 employees, almost 1,000 buses and about 90 trolleys. In 2006 it
had about 3,000 employees, about 1,000 buses and 80 light-rail cars.
Its budget had gone up 42 percent faster than inflation since 1982 --
but they were carrying 70 million people instead of 100 million. They
had lost 30 percent of their business yet everything stayed the same --
and no one even notices this."


Phil