NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release:
2004 November 4
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Glenn A. Walsh --
E-Mail: < gawalsh@planetarium.cc >
Telephone: 412-561-7876
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PUBLIC HEARING “LEGAL FORMALITY”
WHILE PAT WASTES MONEY ON HOTEL BALLROOM
Pittsburgh, Nov. 4 – The
Port Authority of Allegheny County considers today’s public hearing, on transit
fare increases and service cuts, “simply a legal formality, and the Port
Authority is really not interested in hearing from the public,” according to
long-time public transit advocate Glenn A. Walsh. Mr. Walsh documents this
statement by citing the scheduling of only one day of public hearings (due to
the high cost of renting a large hotel ballroom) and the reduction in the
speaker time limit from 5 minutes to 3 minutes (all PAT rate hike hearings,
prior to 2003, allowed speakers 5 minutes to speak).
Mr. Walsh criticized PAT for holding this public hearing in
an expensive hotel ballroom, when the County Courthouse Gold Room, or a high
school auditorium, would have been much less expensive. Mr. Walsh notes that,
despite the Port Authority’s financial problems, PAT continues to waste
taxpayers’ money on this hotel ballroom, and on the proposed abandonment of a $2
million never-used rail car storage yard at Penn Station.
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