Thursday, November 24, 2005
Funding Perspective
BART to SJ Gets Boost | Gilroy Dispatch
However, politics is working its magic. Behind the scenes polititians have been rewriting the rules to make it easier to approve the BART project and VTA has revised its ridership figures to make it an easer sell to the federal government.
Anyone who can't see where this is headed has their head firmly planted up their ass. VTA can't sell this to the government on its merits, so they are manipulating the figures and changing the rules to suit their goals.
Burns has been busy lately writing letters to editors trying to convince the public that Transit Speak really does make sense after all in the hope that he can convince enough of them to vote yes to tax themselves--again--to pay for VTA's waste.
Without the tax in '06 VTA will have to revise its BART plans, which it should have done anyway after the economy tanked. But every slap in the face Reality delivers only steels VTA's resolve. Money may be in short supply at VTA, but stupidity is not.
Gilroy - The $4.7-billion BART to San Jose project got a $6.5-million boost this week from the federal government.This is a small amount of money compared to the funds needed to complete and operate the BART extension--one tenth of one percent of the figures quoted above. But BART's price tag has already proven to be a moving target, one that keeps rising higher.
However, politics is working its magic. Behind the scenes polititians have been rewriting the rules to make it easier to approve the BART project and VTA has revised its ridership figures to make it an easer sell to the federal government.
Anyone who can't see where this is headed has their head firmly planted up their ass. VTA can't sell this to the government on its merits, so they are manipulating the figures and changing the rules to suit their goals.
Burns has been busy lately writing letters to editors trying to convince the public that Transit Speak really does make sense after all in the hope that he can convince enough of them to vote yes to tax themselves--again--to pay for VTA's waste.
Without the tax in '06 VTA will have to revise its BART plans, which it should have done anyway after the economy tanked. But every slap in the face Reality delivers only steels VTA's resolve. Money may be in short supply at VTA, but stupidity is not.
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