At 01:07 PM 12/7/2004, Clinton, J. Scott wrote:
>If they laid off all these people, they could afford to run septa and
>probably have a surplus.
SEPTAs problems are much greater than the cost of their labour.  While every
Philadelphian has their stories of rude SEPTA workers, most of them do their
jobs very well in work conditions that most of us wouldn't choose.  SEPTA is
one of the most 'efficient' transportation providers in the country because
of the states mandate that they recover 50% of their operating expenses from
farebox revenue.

Slight misquote due to a miscut of me here. I said firing Tollbooth operators would free up a lot of transportation money would could be used for SEPTA. I mentioned nothing about firing SEPTA workers.


-Ben

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