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Reader comments
Sketch aims to encourage UTA probe

jmdspk | 11:09 a.m. March 25, 2008

Well lets see,

The voters support TRAX and commuter rail with their pocket books and apparently these people don't like it and are trying to tell the taxpayers they are idiots

However,
-The financial numbers don't back them up
-The ridership numbers don't back them up
-The voters don't back them up
-Since other cities are experiencing the same financial numbers as UTA (except Los Angeles) other numbers don't back them up.

So they go and act like a bunch of circus freaks to get their message across since nothing else works.

I guess it is appropriate since they where in the Capital and our legislature tends to the do the same thing without the costumes.

Indispensable Bureaucrats | 12:14 p.m. March 25, 2008

You can love TRAX, want to see it expanded, and still not be happy that the management of UTA accepted big bonuses that they did not really earn. Money wasted on lazy bureaucrats could have been spent on public transportation.

The only defense UTA has had for the problems uncovered in the legislative audit has been, "John Inglish is the best bureaucrat in the world and he and Michael Allegra are indispensable." No bureaucrat is indispensable. Those two have both worked for UTA for over 30 years. Perhaps it is time for someone to be brought in from the outside with some new ideas. How would that hurt the development of new TRAX lines or the expansion of mass transit?

Tammi Diaz | 12:46 p.m. March 25, 2008

UTA would rather people home bound or in a nursing
home. People voted for trax thinking there be no cut
in bus service.

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jmdspk | 1:00 p.m. March 25, 2008

So how much is bonuses and salary are these people from these so called non-profits making that are attacking TRAX at every point? After all in Los Angeles the head of the BRU was driving around in his brand new BMW while the bus riders he was supposedly trying to help had no transit service because of a strike that the BRU supported?
Since Indispensable Bureaucrat you brought up something that has nothing to do with what the article was about digest that.

jmdspk | 1:13 p.m. March 25, 2008

Please Tammy explain what bus cuts can be attributed to TRAX. There has been none because TRAX funds are not coming out of fares. TRAX is more efficient and cost less per passenger than the bus system. The problem with you and the Bus Riders Union is that you are looking at TRAX as this big evil thing. Hopefully your group of misguides soles will not cause 12% cuts in bus service like the BRU in Los Angeles were many people are going without any bus service because of the BRU's stupidity.

Who Knew? | 3:18 p.m. March 25, 2008

So that's all you have to do to get in the paper is to dress up as a gorilla at the Capitol and claim to be Mark Shurtleff?

Anonymous | 2:23 p.m. March 26, 2008

Does John Inglish ride the bus four hours a day? If not, he should start doing his job.

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