[ For those of you going to the County Supervisors meeting this Thursday at 7pm, there is a handy link at the end you might find useful. Item J-4 is the RTA item. ]
I have been monitoring the Web for anti-RTA (Regional Transportation Authority) positions, and I have discovered that our good buddy, Randal O'Toole has been a guest on the Vicky Mckenna radio show quite a few times in the last month inciting the right-wingers against Rail. Podcasts of shows can be browsed here: http://www.wiba.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=upfront.xml A past bikies-exchange of Mr. O'Toole can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06779.html Mr. O'Toole's most recent publication is "Debunking Portland The City That Doesn't Work": http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa-596/pa-596index.html As many of you know, I spent the first 31 years of my life in Portland, witnessed their transit system firsthand and have 10 years of Tri-Met (Portland's transit system) transit passes as proof of my credentials. I started reading the piece on Portland and my B.S. detector immediately registered off the charts. Well, have no fear, I have discovered a handy counter-attack of Mr. O'Toole's arguments and it can be found here: http://www.vtpi.org/railcrit.pdf I would be especially interested in how Eric Westhagen reads this refutation. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
