BCT Editorial – 2/5/08

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Filling a void; Editorial; Beaver County Times; February 5, 2008.

Two excerpts summarize this editorial. They are “But maintaining eight routes, as the Port Authority and Beaver County Transit Authority do, requires a tradeoff of cost for service. Determining the cost-benefit of those routes must go beyond dollars and cents.” and “No one is advocating inefficiency, but sometimes service is more important than the cost.” Translation: Whatever the cost to taxpayers and regardless of the small number of riders, do it.

This editorial is from the same folks who refer to people who oppose using potential toll I-80 tolls for “mass transit” as “Freeloaders.” As I noted in the “Freeloaders” critique, the Times doesn’t consider “people who demand taxpayers subsidize their bus rides” to be freeloaders.

Back in the good old days of personal responsibility, my grandparents moved from Beaver Falls to Aliquippa to be in close proximity to my grandfather’s then-new job. Why can’t people do that today instead of demanding that the rest of us subsidize their transportation?