Imagine being a taxpayer in LA County, where this $154 million boondoggle for turnstiles is underway:
At least a third of the money spent on the system may have been wasted because the turnstiles cannot be locked until the Metropolitan Transit Authority fully converts to an electronic transit pass system, the newspaper reports.
But a lot of riders are still using paper tickets, and many other transit systems, such as municipal bus services, have been slow to adopt the electronic cards.
Speaking of transit-related issues, what should North Carolina do to reduce congestion? Light rail enthusiasts continue to push for an astronomically expensive, inflexible rail system. However, Randal O’Toole, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has ideas for fighting road congestion in North Carolina. O’Toole offered these remarks during a May 17, 2010, presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
