The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is a group of 19 commissioners from the greater Bay Area counties and cities that is tasked with a variety of coordination efforts to improve transportation. We definitely need such a group and we need them to be effective.
What we don't need is their "Transactions" publication. This quarterly piece is an 11' x 17", glossy, heavy stock, full-color advertisement for a public agency. The Fall 2010 issue is nothing but awards to schoolkids and insiders with not a bit of enlightenment as to who is doing what to whom on the MTC. We could use a less-flashy version with real content from these commissioners about issues, positions, votes, etc. I'd like to see them treat their budget as if it were their own money.
I know there are a couple of bloggers who follow the MTC closely and have opinions on the members and the issues being addressed. Consider this your invitation to enlighten the rest of us--for free.
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