[sustran] Wall Street Journal Public Transport Editorial

[Dr. V. S. Pendakur]

There is susstantial experience ( number of systems and number of years )
in this regardamong the smaller transit systems in British Columbia here. 
There are sevral success stories and also several complex experiences. 
Success stories,generally,  combine compatible land use planning within the
transit corridors.  Complex ones involve competetive bidding by new comers
essentiaslly offering lower wages and benefits to new employees a la Wall
Mart.  There are some major questions of social policy in this context
unlike say in the US where these questions are noty considered important or
significant in the transit field.

cheers.
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Dr. V. Setty Pendakur
School of Community and Regional Planning
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada  V6T 1Z2
1-604-822-3394-voice, 1-604-822-3787-fax
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> Subject: [sustran] Wall Street Journal Public Transport Editorial
> Date: Wednesday, September 03, 1997 5:44 AM
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> This morning's Wall Street Journal carries an editorial on urban public
> transport: "Getting There." Them is competitive tendering (competitive
> contracting) and failure of the US federal subsidy program to increase
> public transport ridership.
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