Vacuum-Cleaner's Blog

There are some things that Metro has done that got the public mad at them.  When it comes to building a line, you have to hire a firm that WILL do the work such as design of the route, finding out utility lines and how they are routed, know your environmental areas such as former landfills, etc.  The company that you hire cannot be one that sits on their can and does nothing.  Plus with the Call-a-Ride, you have to look at the vans to see what kind of weight they can handle before you go out and buy them.  And the Fords didn't have the weight requirement is needed to meet today's standards.  I told Metro about this before and they didn't listen until Elliot Davis' 'You Paid for It" saga got them to change.  There were times that I had to put up with sheer nonsence in my 16 years of volunteerism at Metro.  I did see in a set of slides on Metro's "2009-The Road ahead" page that some top officials will be getting cut.  Well, for cramming lots of cash into their pockets and not using the extra sales tax dollars for future expansions, well now those top officals are going to learn their fate, effective this spring.  Same with some of the planning and scheduling department's employees.  Those employees blew it for everybody!