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Re: NJT 351 to be cut back to Secaucus Junction |
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Posted by JAzumah on Tue Aug 19 14:31:09 2008, in response to Re: NJT 351 to be cut back to Secaucus Junction, posted by Hank Eisenstein on Tue Aug 19 13:19:19 2008. !!!Hank, Hank, Hank. You KNOW better than that. You're a smart guy, so don't drink the public sector Kool-Aid. "My post is an educated guess on what Jazumah may be making phone calls about, since he is in the charter business, and has, for lack of a better way to put it, a burr on his ass for public service running where a private company can/should/was." Incorrect. I do not like seeing struggling, big, sloppy transit agencies allocating resources to special event services when their CORES are hurting. WMATA has a reputation for screwing its bus riders and at least the current general manager ADMITS it and is trying to fix it. The law says that private carriers get the first shot at charters and shuttles. It has said that since 1987. Now that the various bus associations have broken their collective feet off in the FTA's rump and now the FTA wants to "contain its budget", the rules are being enforced. What an atrocity! The private sector should not have to fight taxpayer funded transit agencies for ITS OWN WORK! If the transit agencies were smart, they would make a deal with the private guys. NJT did with Coach USA on the 351 and with Academy on the 139 (although the 139 deal came after warfare). The rule does not say transit agenecies cannot do the work. It says that private carriers have first dibs on the work. That is all the regulations say, yet I suspect sports teams are setting up contracts in such a manner that they are getting high numbers and that means that the contracts are bogus, the private guys are greedy, or the public sector is bearing costs that they shouldn't. Chances are good that two of the three reasons are in play. Transit agencies should stop fighting the private sector if the laws are on our side and just make a deal. |
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