Villaraigosa Cuts Heads from MTA Board. Too little, too late.
Too little change, too late, Mr. Villaraigosa.Putting in the MTA failsafes, or changing MTA Board Directors, should have been done before the train crash. You are now grandstanding in the face of dozens of deaths, hundreds of injuries and tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, in liability.
If you spent less time posing for photos, and coming up with clever names of things that sound good, but people don't want, such as "Subway to the Sea" and "the subway mayor," and spent that time, energy and money on safety, we'd have those people alive today.
Labels: metrolink train crash, mta, subway mayor, Subway to the Sea, villaraigosa
Posted by Shelby York @ 9/17/2008 04:55:00 PM
6 Comments:
Isn't Villariagosa the Chair of the MTA? Doesn't the buck stop with him? Or is it that the buck just passes through him.
How many of Villariagosa's buddies got deals at the MTA and for how much? Do the contracts that Victor Griego, Ron Martinez (Gloria's husband), and Richard Alatorre's buddies total the amount needed to safe guard the tracks from human error?
Ronnie did get some breaks through Antonio, but that was only with affirmative actions/equal opportunity type of work that his consulting business had put into the bidding process- he even got an extension to bid when he missed the deadline- but track safety wasn't his deal, and back then, it wasn't anyone's real worry.
No one really worked to keep up with the times for prevention and upgrading safety- they might not have thought about it at all. ON the other hand, if they did, it sure couldn't have been like the Ford Pinto gas tank outcome, cheaper to pay case-by-case claims than pay for an entire recall.
Cost-benefit analysis type thinking, if considered with this safety concern would have been ghoulish, but it's still not out of the question that it happened.
Antonio's still bad news, but with his shortsighted style, why would you expect anything foundational to happen? He only cares about things that make a big splash in the press, not deeper things.
All his globetrotting really hurt him. If he can't stay in one place to give any real focused thought to the flood of city issues, what kind of results do you think he will come up with?
He delegates work to people to work in place of his own efforts. The MTA hand-off did not come off well with this disaster, so he has to re-group and do some damage control. But since he's not spent much time working, he can't even do that well.
I am sure he will massage the whole thing to come out smelling like a rose by the March elections. Right now he just smells.
Within the L.A. city limits.
If he really wanted a shake up he would have appointed Denise Tyrrell to both the Metro and Metrolink boards. This would have sent a message.
HEY MAYOR HOW ABOUT YOU STOP SPENDING 89% OF YOUR TIME ON BULL $#!T LIKE PRANCING IN FRONT OF A CAMERA ALL DAY AND START SPENDING MORE OF YOU TIME TENDING TO THE CITY.
Stop trying to get your mug on tv every night.
I really cant put into words the anger i have and disgust i have towards you and the way you have run this city to the f@#$ng groung while asking me for more tax money or raising the trash fees.
all the while taking money from you developer buddy's to screw up the west side.
when are you going to stick up for the tax paying citizens like my self!!!
AHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!
I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE YOU WANT TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS YOU NEED ACCOUNTABLITY. THAT'S WHY WE ALL SHOULD ENLIST " LAURA CHICK FOR MAYOR"!!!! SHE WILL PUT LIGHT ON THESE PROBLEMS AND POINT THE FINGER AT THESE LIARS SO WE CAN GET RID OF THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL BEFORE MORE PEOPLE DIE.
OOOPS-
Metro or the MTA, does not operate Metrolink, which a collaboration with Directors from the MTA, the OCTA, and the rest of the So Cal Transportation agencies.
You may blame Antonio for many things, but on this issue he is pretty blameless. Mayor Ron Roberts of Temecula, who is the Chair of Metrolink, is the bad guy here.
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