Transit Authority: Spend More Time Finding Solutions, Less Time On Hiring Partisan Consultants
Can anyone else see the problem in this story about the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority choosing not to hire the same consultant I wrote about last week? The one who got paid $30,000 to make the common sense recommendation that increasing routes and lowering rates would actually help Milwaukee County transit?
Other transit authority members contended that Rubin’s status as a rail transit critic, backed by the Libertarian-oriented Reason Foundation and the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, would give the authority added credibility among Republicans in the Legislature.
Any idea why the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority doesn’t hire a “LIBERAL” highway critic who has ties to progressive transit think tanks to provide recommendations for its highway policies?
The real question is why the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority pandering to “conservatives” at all with regard to shaping their policy towards mass transit in Wisconsin? Transit policy in this part of the state has been mired in partisan politics for the better part of two decades now, the last thing we need is a continuation of that policy that has yielded exactly nothing for the residents of Southeastern Wisconsin.
June 24, 2008 7:45 am 
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
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