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Ringo! – put that way and I agree – that makes sense
why DO we all pay for SI residents to take a free ferry back and forth
Even if you charge something like a $1 each way – you will reap the benefits!
Don’t think CA’s bankruptcy has anything much to do with San Diego’s Republicanism.
Actually, Etson, I really don’t either, but California has a bipartisan disease and that is a problem with reality. And a strange unwillingness to battle out problems/negotiate solutions. On one hand, you have Proposition 13 and on the other hand, massive spending until the whole thing came crashing down. Not that we aren’t suffering that as a country, but they seem particularly egregious. The politicians are really really bad (do you remember Calpx, the spot market for electric power, part of a plan to deregulate power in the state?) Every other state worked through the thorny issues of stranded assets in a more or less rational way but California actually made a plan that systematically bankrupted two out of three of its major utilities. And now, the fabulous University system is being dismantled school by school.
I took my kids on the Staten Island Ferry this weekend and could only think, why is this free? Why are my taxes paying for Staten Island residents to commute for free when subway monthly cards are going up, up, up. And I know we don’t care about tourists paying money.
Put in turnstiles. Make people swipe a card. 20 million people a year ride the ferry. Track the friggin money. MTA budget crisis solved.
Ringo! – put that way and I agree – that makes sense
why DO we all pay for SI residents to take a free ferry back and forth
Even if you charge something like a $1 each way – you will reap the benefits!
Did the ferry used to be .50?
By etson on August 24, 2010 2:20 PM
Don’t think CA’s bankruptcy has anything much to do with San Diego’s Republicanism.
Actually, Etson, I really don’t either, but California has a bipartisan disease and that is a problem with reality. And a strange unwillingness to battle out problems/negotiate solutions. On one hand, you have Proposition 13 and on the other hand, massive spending until the whole thing came crashing down. Not that we aren’t suffering that as a country, but they seem particularly egregious. The politicians are really really bad (do you remember Calpx, the spot market for electric power, part of a plan to deregulate power in the state?) Every other state worked through the thorny issues of stranded assets in a more or less rational way but California actually made a plan that systematically bankrupted two out of three of its major utilities. And now, the fabulous University system is being dismantled school by school.
Sigh.
” I was XENA, fighting to defend you.”
Pointless, just encourages him.
ugh someone handcuff in here before i go completely bonkers in the Modern Anthropolkogy thread hahahah. total ridiculousness.
i bet 11217 is having an orgasm over that store right now.
*rob*
The Staten Islan ferry is FREE????? WTF?????
You’re adorable either way, etson. : )
Peter Paul Almond Joys got nuts. Peter Paul Mounds don’t. Be-CAUSE . . . sometimes you feel like a nut! Sometimes you don’t!
ANNNNNNNNND now I’ll be singing that jingle in my head the rest of the day.
I took my kids on the Staten Island Ferry this weekend and could only think, why is this free? Why are my taxes paying for Staten Island residents to commute for free when subway monthly cards are going up, up, up. And I know we don’t care about tourists paying money.
Put in turnstiles. Make people swipe a card. 20 million people a year ride the ferry. Track the friggin money. MTA budget crisis solved.