I don’t see the Globe anymore. I have to get my yuks from the Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2013/03/13/burlington_bus_fares_headed_for_steep_hike_despite_service_complaints.html).
Here is today’s knee slapper from Burlington Mayor Rick Goldring.
Referring to a steep increase in transit fares that his
council will be considering on Monday night Goldring said:
“They should not be done on an ad hoc basis. There should be some clear rationale.”OK, I sense you are not rolling in the aisles on this one. And how good is a joke if you have to explain it, right? But here goes.
Well, why it made me laugh is that the just a little over a
year ago the mayor had a rationale in his hands. A report from Dillon Consultants entitled The Route Ahead: Burlington Transit Master
Plan 2012 -2021 ran nearly two hundred
pages and laid out a busload of rationales and all kinds of strategies for Burlington
Transit including pricing strategies.
Council didn’t like what was in that report (which by the
way cost over $100,000). It never was
released for public comment.
Instead Council has headed off on its own by cutting routes
and shifting gas tax dollars away from transit.
Now the basis for all transit decisions is truly ad hoc with absolutely
no clear rationale for what is being done.
Actually it really isn’t that funny is it? 
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