Readers question whether transit rider compensation is enough, and criticize a “not-for-profit” group over a $300 million program and CEO pay.
While I can certainly understand compensating riders for the mess we call a “transit system”, I’d like to know what’s going to be done for taxpayers who also continue to pay for this fiasco.. Now I know we may not use it regularly, if at all, but we keep paying for it.. Where I live, we don’t even have transit service, save for that one bus on Thursday morning that takes people to Billings Bridge..
Although we don’t pay as much in taxes as people closer to the city, we still pay.. While this would be expensive, you can’t just compensate riders because they aren’t the only ones affected.. We all are, to a lesser degree.. SANDY JOHNSTON NOT FOR PROFIT?. There are still a lot of folks who have a misguided perception of “not for profit” groups; they envision poor souls toiling away with next to nothing in return,
and I suppose there may be some that fall into that category.. However, there are many more, like the Canada Health Infoway, which refused to come clean about a $300 million program that paid its CEO a whopping $900,000 a year.
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