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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
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Badger of Basra posted:

That article seems to say that the problem is they don't have enough drivers, rather than that the ones they do have are a huge drain on their budget.
And if a governmental agency can't fill jobs it's usually due to a couple of reasons: a)They don't have the money or b)the positions are actually lovely and the benefits/pay are terrible relative to the job (although this can often be tied to reason a).

It doesn't matter if you have the smartest self-driving buses in the world if you don't have the tax revenue to pay for their purchase, upkeep, and maintenance.

e: To expand on this a bit more, you often see people complaining about a sales/gas tax hike to pay for transit. People abloo bloo-ing about a tenth of a cent that will add light rail or more buses because they "don't use them" even though it benefits you as a driver when there are fewer cars on the road.

SubponticatePoster fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Dec 17, 2016

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