Speed Gibson – new to the world of seceding from the tax-paying car community – notes the bad news:<\/p>\n
The Twin Cities slept through the last Transit strike and barely noticed the one before that. But now ridership is up and the union knows it. They voted down the latest offer, 19 to 1. A strike is possible in about a month, just in time for the State Fair and the Republican National Convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, wouldn’t that <\/em>be great news?<\/p>\n
Public Transit provides a very small percentage of the total number of passenger miles. Most don’t use it at all. But if you’re a regular, you might want to arrange an alternative. As ineffective as the last strike was, it did last 45 days.<\/p>\n
Any doubt about fares going up another 50 cents next year?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Government in action; “people are using <\/em>the product!\u00a0 Jack up the price!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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