Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported that SEPTA has reached an agreement with Transport Workers Union Local 234 about ending the six-day old strike involving trolley, bus and subway workers. Not a peep in the article as to if SEPTA consented to a forensic audit of the pension fund which was reported to be the big sticking point in Sunday’s paper.
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So Why Won’t SEPTA OK Audit?
I’m not inclined to be sympathetic to Transport Workers Union Local 234 which is screwing up life for tens of thousands in the Philadelphia area by keeping SEPTA’s trolleys subways and buses from running — and that does not even count the damage to the environment, please think of the trees — especially since the average salary for the local is $52,000 along with bennies in this economy, but the sticking point in getting them back to work appears to be a demand for a forensic audit of the pension fund which SEPTA is unwilling to do.
The union has offered to pay for the audit.
It is something that makes you go hmmmmmm.
Screwups Hail Obama
Screwups Hail Obama — So this is what we get for the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? A $3,000 green sign and a solution to a problem that should never have existed and matters worse — at least with regard to things like convenience, traffic and pollution — than it was before a certain government agency tried to fix things.
The sign, which also has an orange top depicting a man digging a ditch and the words “Putting America To Work” went up Sept. 23 at the Springfield Road stop for SEPTA’s Route 101 trolley in Springfield, Pa. SEPTA, btw, never bothered to consider PennDOT’s concerns before starting the project which involved installing traffic-safety gates, removing the traffic-safety gates and changing a decades-old scheme so commuters now must cross the busy highway at least once per round trip, at a spot, mind you, where it is illegal to do so.
And why does Obama think that Americans being forced to earn a living digging ditches is somehow progress? I’d like to see him dig ditches.\
Screwups Hail Obama
Trolley Gate Fiasco Began With SEPTA Ignoring PennDOT
The trolley gates placed at intersections with four highways in Springfield, Delaware County, Pa. were done so by SEPTA despite PennDOT’s recommendation against it, according to State Rep. Bill Adolph (R-165).
The expensive gates are now being removed after snarling traffic for a year.
Trolley Gate Fiasco Began With SEPTA Ignoring PennDOT
SEPTA Gates Are Gone
The traffic gates that have been tormenting motorists for a year were removed Aug. 26 from SEPTA’s Springfield Road Trolley Stop in Springfield, Pa. Thank State Rep. Bill Adolph (R-165) who promised to get them removed and then followed through. It should be noted that stops remaining on opposites of the busy road so commuters will have to cross it either coming or going, which is something that wasn’t the case for about eight decades.
SEPTA To Remove Gates
SEPTA will remove the gates at the trolley stops in Springfield Township starting with the Springfield Road station where they have been causing traffic snarls for a year albeit things have gotten better in recent months, thank you State Rep. Bill Adolph.
Plans also call for the removal of gates at Scenic Road and Saxer and Leamy avenues.
Spend thousands to put them up and spend thousands to take them down. Measure once cut twice could be the motto of any organization affiliated with government in this area.
Will the signal timing change at Springfield Road? I doubt they will be having trolleys once again make all stops on the northern side of the busy highway something that allowed the vast majority of commuters to avoid crossing it.