Chron: METRO approves massive new budget, fare increases; public in the dark until last minute
The Chronicle's Carolyn Feibel reports that METRO approved a massive new budget today that contains another round of fare increases.
Feibel reported this morning on the proposed fare increase. There hasn't been much awareness or discussion of the fare increase, mainly because METRO prefers to keep the public in the dark on its full budget.
Feibel recently reported on METRO's lack of budget transparency, and today even the Chronicle editorial board, one of the enablers of METRO's nontransparent and arrogant behavior over the years, chided METRO for its budget secrecy.
Not that any of it really matters. As long as Frank "Procurement Disaster" Wilson is running METRO and we have a mayor who is disinterested in METRO, Wilson is going to do what he pleases. Too bad if public watchdogs, or the public itself, object.
It will be interesting to see if the fare increases actually produce an increase in revenues. If Bill King is right, revenues won't increase, and may well continue their decline.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/17/09 10:27 PM | Print | Comments (3)
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