Letter: Reduce executive pay, keep UTA fares reasonable

Published: Friday, Aug. 3 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

Rose Pescinski "taps on" for TRAX fare in Salt Lake City on Friday. UTA is studying a distance-based fare model.

Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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Solving the UTA fare problem is easy: reduce executive pay.

I have a solution for the UTA fare conundrum. Let's ask our overly-compensated executives to take responsibility for making less than genius decisions about UTA fares. Let's bring their compensation down to reasonable levels, and we likely will save enough to keep serving a public that has been loyal to their system.

If they raise rates and drive away ridership, we will have to raise rates again to make up for the loss of revenue. This can develop into a vicious circle. Don't reward this kind of leadership.

Brian L. Homer

Cottonwood Heights

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Owl

Salt Lake City, UT

Criticizing UTA leadership pay without looking at executive pay as a percentage of annual operating budget is short sighted. We should expect well paid UTA CEOs to provide commensurate leadership. That has happened. Cutting their pay by substantial More..

9:58 a.m. Aug. 3, 2012
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Makid

Kearns, UT

If the entire executive staff for UTA took a 50% pay cut, this would reduce fares by less than $0.10 from what they currently are.

Dropping the executive staff completely would drop UTA fares by only $0.20.

I think a better idea More..

8:55 a.m. Aug. 3, 2012
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louie

Cottonwood Heights, UT

They will find a way when you decrease the county tax levy. Start by increasing fares from the airport by double. The tax paying citizens benefit little from having a connection to the airport. All other fares should also be increased.

9:28 a.m. Aug. 3, 2012
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