Westover: The Vandals have sacked Rome

I’ve railed about transit before and continue to be amazed at how the phony ideas behind it seem to have been elevated to some kind of generally accepted, almost Biblical truth.

I comment Craig Westover’s column in today’s DPP to everybody’s attention.

I have excerpted the last paragraph as a teaser:

[C]urrent transit planning is not being done for the benefit of the public. The transportation policy being railroaded through the Legislature is about convenience for the well-connected and a legacy for the legislative elite for which everyone else pays. It's cool. The current dust-up among the Met Council, the Legislature and the counties is just more of the $6.6 billion entertainment value of the "historic" transportation bill, which is the best most of us can hope for.

In combination with Dave Orrick’s article on the front page of the Local section [“Draft of a Dream”] about how the manipulators hope to redesign University Avenue with little concern for what happens to the present residents and business people along the Avenue, we all ought to be just a tad scared. [WARNING: Open House tomorrow, 10 am to 1 pm. 1080 University, aka the Old Library]

Previous posts:

http://ccmusings.blogspot.com/2008/03/county-now-deeper-in-transit-ripoff.html [3/26/08]
http://ccmusings.blogspot.com/2007/12/moving-train.html [12/16/07]
http://ccmusings.blogspot.com/2007/12/big-lake-ripoff.html [12/13/07]
http://ccmusings.blogspot.com/2007/12/transit-and-taxes.html [12/7/08]