Dear Editor,
The Valley Transportation Authority is not going bankrupt
– it was conceived insolvent, born bankrupt.
Dear Editor,
The Valley Transportation Authority is not going bankrupt – it was conceived insolvent, born bankrupt.
Firing the general manager of VTA, or abolishing VTA and transferring its responsibilities to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors are ineffective remedies. Management failure is due to a fatally-flawed structure. New management on the flawed foundation will not improve anything. Pigs won’t fly even if you give them wings – bad design.
Why did Canada privatize? Why did Mexico privatize? What did Margaret Thatcher’s administration do with Britain’s public-sector industries? With the Congress, once again, threatening to “sunset” (euthanize) Amtrack, why are California’s taxpayers being burdened with unsound, unsustainable public-sector transit, bus, rail and soon, bullet trains? Like the county grand jury, you’ve found the problem, but your remedy won’t work. Caveat Viator!
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
