Posts Tagged buses
Public Transit: Comparing Austin to Pittsburgh
written 19 Oct 2008 over a light lunch
Maybe I’ll make a little series out of this, comparing the City of Bridges to the City of Live Music. Or this may be the last post in this vein, we’ll see. For clarification, the public transit system in Austin is called Capital Metro and the one in Pittsburgh is the Port Authority of Allegheny County.
Yesterday we took a few buses and while I wouldn’t call myself a Capital Metro-nado, we traveled far and had what I surmised was a pretty typical experience.
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Investigating the Port Authority, Drink Tax and the Onorato Administration
This report will attempt to demonstrate how, given the available data, the Port Authority could actually profit considerably more than $32M per year, if it gets its act together.
I have been doing considerable research (relative to my other posts, anyway) as to the purpose of the Drink Tax and its affect on the Port Authority, namely: Will their be measurable results to indicate if the drink tax is a success? The concern being that this becomes just another tax which has no visible results. I submitted questions to the Port Authority, Dan Onorato, County Council and FACT (Friends Against Counterproductive Taxation) in an attempt to get this question answered.
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The Future of Pittsburgh Public Transportation
Peak Direction is a great blog all about public transit in Pittsburgh and it’s author, Brent, seems to keep on top of what’s happening in the area. For instance, did you know CMU is building an automated phone system to help finding a bus after Port Authority hours easier? Or that Port Authority has plans to build an automated fare system?
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