Cameron on Transportation
The Politicians and Bureaucrats Running State Transportation Policy Want to Keep Commuters in the Dark
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Why do the folks who run our commuter railroads act like their customers are stupid Though desperate for ridership to return (to fight huge post-COVID deficits), they ignore legitimate commuter feedback and do everything they can to hide their failures. Case in point: the Commuter Rail Council, the independent watchdog group created by the CT legislature almost 40 years ago, on which I served for 19 years. During the Malloy administration we were getting a bit too vocal in our complaints, so a senior Democrat warned me (and another Council member) to cool it or “your little Commuter Council will be written out of existence”. Sure enough, they tried, slipping a bill into the hopper to eliminate our group and its criticism. To his credit, state Sen. Tony Hwang saved the day, rewriting the Council’s mandate, though in a much watered-down version.