“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King, Jr

Friday, June 17, 2011

Cash-strapped Muni defends severance pay for chief

San Francisco transportation officials Thursday defended the proposal to pay Muni chief Nathaniel Ford a $384,000 severance package for an early exit, even as the cash-strapped agency is set to raise the cost of the monthly transit pass and parking fees.


-sigh-

More money for a bailout

$24.5 million bailout for AC Transit

It keeps getting better

MTA bus driver suspended for 15th time was hired after DWI conviction

We don't have any money

But we do have money for these TWO video cameras so you can watch them build the bridge online.

You'd better believe it

This is America's future, one of government-induced privation and societal misery. Study the dominant social themes of the elite, its recent fear-based promotions, and one begins to get a sense more fully of what is being prepared. The signs are increasingly visible. Throughout last week Western markets and media focused on a warning from Standard and Poor's (S&P), which downgraded the US debt outlook from stable to negative for the first time in 70 years. Will maintream financial media still continue to use the ludicrous term "risk-free Treasury paper?" 

The Daily Bell - IMF Austerity Is Headed to America – Watch Out!

Brand New Toy

http://pdxrailtransit.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/brand-new-toy/

Only from the Onion

Report: Typical City Bus Contains...

Hawthorne Bridge repairs; Portland's Naked Bike Ride; high schoolers lose TriMet passes: Commuting roundup

  • Remember those translucent, candy-colored computers from the 1990’s that let you see the circuit-and-wire guts of the latest technology. Well, how about an old transparent car? Apparently, there’s one out there. The 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe-Six Ghost Car is being auctioned off next month. It’s expected to go to some eccentric gazzilionaire for $475,000.

City: TriMet pass program for high schoolers is dead

http://portlandafoot.org/2011/06/city-trimet-pass-program-for-high-schoolers-is-dead/
Everybody saw this coming, right?

Why using the microphones is dangerous

http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-using-microphones-is-dangerous.html

How much longer do we have to put up with this safety hazard?

http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-much-longer-do-we-have-to-put-up.html