what's to come

ON the 23rd of October the board of directed did what they do best. They rubber stamped a policy decision that will affect all the transit riders in Pittsburgh. In the near future these route changes will be seen for what they are a shrinking of the coverage area provided by the Port Authority and a reason to implement a regional transit authority. We'll soon be hearing of another funding crisis, legacy costs, and more service cuts. Soon our tax dollars will be going into the hands of a private concern running our authority in one form or another all in the name of efficiency. Ever since Dan Onorato's begining of his first term he's been quite clear of changing transit as we know it in this area. Time interrupts me to delve into this subject any further at this time but future blogs will document how this has started from the first weeks of this administration in January of 2005 to the present.