My point is that it is a pretty bad sign that we have put our eggs in the basket of more latitude for MTA staff, and the very first thing they propose once gaining that latitude is to fund Muni with more private advertising. We need an elected Muni board. Liberal half way measures are just going to dig us deeper into a mediocracitic mire. peace Eric dave@livablecity.org wrote:
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...
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