Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Even the Experts Agree
Light Rail Now! Editorial Blasts VTA Management:
Even this obviously pro-light rail advocate concedes that VTA mismanages its money. He downplays their obvious disregard for efficiency or its effects on their budget, or the complete disconnect between their spending for new construction and local economic conditions. Nevertheless, it is a glaring indicator of mismanagement when a bureaucrat and proponent of public transit so harshly criticizes a public transit agency's mismanagement.
Edson L. Tennyson, P.E., is a transportation consultant and former deputy secretary of transportation for the State of Pennsylvania.
...[I]n one of the most astonishing and questionable actions I have ever seen in transit, VTA went and bought 100 new cars to replace the fifty UTDC cars that were only 18 years old. That is a major reason why they are out of money. They wanted low-floor cars, despite this heavy expense. Money did not seem to matter -– but of course it does. ...VTA's leadership has got to get real.
Even this obviously pro-light rail advocate concedes that VTA mismanages its money. He downplays their obvious disregard for efficiency or its effects on their budget, or the complete disconnect between their spending for new construction and local economic conditions. Nevertheless, it is a glaring indicator of mismanagement when a bureaucrat and proponent of public transit so harshly criticizes a public transit agency's mismanagement.
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