Any time you hear or read the word authority, the public should duck. These state or quasi state agencies are nothing more than fiefdoms coveting power. The operating manual for municipalities across the country for these transit authorities has its genesis in New York City. Its avatar was Robert Moses. His approach to accruing money and power (while never being elected or having a drivers license) had devotes lining up to become acolytes in starving transit and building roads, highways predictably through neighborhoods of color. This model has become indelible and sadly will not change as the antagonists to transit are bought and payed for by the car lobby in our politicians for hire form of democracy.
Any time you hear or read the word authority, the public should duck. These state or quasi state agencies are nothing more than fiefdoms coveting power. The operating manual for municipalities across the country for these transit authorities has its genesis in New York City. Its avatar was Robert Moses. His approach to accruing money and power (while never being elected or having a drivers license) had devotes lining up to become acolytes in starving transit and building roads, highways predictably through neighborhoods of color. This model has become indelible and sadly will not change as the antagonists to transit are bought and payed for by the car lobby in our politicians for hire form of democracy.