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Re: What happened with California HSR?
Author: BART Rider
Date: 11-05-2008 - 20:05
Dr Zarkoff is a completly stupid. He wrote (incorrectly):
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> Talk about pouring money down a rathole. BARTD
> started out with directors appointed by the
> Governor,
WRONG BART orginally had 12 directors, 4 from each of the three member counties. Alameda & Contra Costa's directors were appointed by the Board of Supervisors, I'm not sure how SF's were appointed, (Mayor? Supervisors? combination of both?)
> but frittered away so much money it lost
> all credibility with the taxpayers.
If they lost so much credibility from the voters then why did they recieve 0ver 60% of the vote (in all 3 counties) when the orginal plan was appoved by the voters?
>So the law
> authorizing BARTD was amended by the initiative
> process to make the directors stand for election.
The law was amended by the state legislature, at the request of the 3 counties to create an independent agencys with an independent governoring board of directors.
> If you were ever exposed to the inefficiencies and
> over-layering of the BARTD buracracy, you'd be
> absolutely appalled.
BART certainly has it's problems, but I doubt if the over 400,000 regular riders would agree with you.
> HSR will suffer a similar
> fate (at your wallet's expense too). The SNCF is
> part of France's gross national debt.
So what's your alternative? More cars and highways?
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> Talk about pouring money down a rathole. BARTD
> started out with directors appointed by the
> Governor,
WRONG BART orginally had 12 directors, 4 from each of the three member counties. Alameda & Contra Costa's directors were appointed by the Board of Supervisors, I'm not sure how SF's were appointed, (Mayor? Supervisors? combination of both?)
> but frittered away so much money it lost
> all credibility with the taxpayers.
If they lost so much credibility from the voters then why did they recieve 0ver 60% of the vote (in all 3 counties) when the orginal plan was appoved by the voters?
>So the law
> authorizing BARTD was amended by the initiative
> process to make the directors stand for election.
The law was amended by the state legislature, at the request of the 3 counties to create an independent agencys with an independent governoring board of directors.
> If you were ever exposed to the inefficiencies and
> over-layering of the BARTD buracracy, you'd be
> absolutely appalled.
BART certainly has it's problems, but I doubt if the over 400,000 regular riders would agree with you.
> HSR will suffer a similar
> fate (at your wallet's expense too). The SNCF is
> part of France's gross national debt.
So what's your alternative? More cars and highways?
