In TriMet's current budget, and way of thinking, there's plenty of money for the $1.5 billion Portland-Milwaukie light-rail project and a groovy new bridge over the Willamette.
There's cash on hand for the Lake Oswego streetcar, staffing for the constipated Columbia River Crossing and start-up costs for the eastside streetcar. There's $53 million for bus maintenance, a million for media relations and government affairs, and $10 million in the mysterious file drawer labeled "Contingency."
But for YouthPass, the essential bus ride to school for more than 10,000 Portland teenagers?
Steve Duin
3 comments:
Duin really hit it with this column.
He points out where Neil's head is at. He doesn't think that TriMet is a public SERVICE agency, rather it is a mechanism to subsidize private business with expensive capital projects with dubious public benefit.
Exactamundo!
I don't suppose a means test is a particularly bad thing I guess on further consideration.
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