The Board of Supervisors can still deny the revenue contract that the MTA will have to sign to approve TVs on buses or trains, and I hope they do, because this is a terrible idea. The pilot project might slip below the threshhold for approval by the board, but that would have been the case before Prop A, too, because Prop A didn't change that. If the MTA projects certain revenues from the TV advertising, the Board can reject the MTA's budget with 7 votes (before Prop A it would have required 8). Considering that Board of Supervisors last rejected the MTA's budgets in order to reduce parking costs to motorists, they had better reject a budget that degrades the transit environment for customers by placing TV ads. Dave On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Katherine Roberts wrote:
This kind of crap is exactly why I opposed giving more money and authority to the MTA. It's too bad Prop A won. We're about to get five more years of meltdown and insults to common sense...