bureaucratic bunglers at our Cleveland-area RTA propose once-a-week bus service to replace community circulators; the commentary is predictable, and delicious
There’s a good thread running here after the PD article, in the comments. Reader-riders are saying what they would like to see, and as those of us who serve the public know, the consumer-customer is always right. It is nearly impossible to get this basic precept through the thick skulls of the bureaucrats who continue to make such a mess of a decent public-transit infrastructure.
Once a week. Incredible. Nearly unbelievable.
Let’s do a little soul-searching, on the way to providing people in northeast Ohio public transit the same way and for the same reasons we provide public education:
"…the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
"A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members — the last, the least, the littlest."
~Cardinal Roger Mahony, In a 1998 letter, Creating a Culture of Life
RTA proposes once-a-week bus service to replace community circulators – cleveland.com