Never mind the Commission behind the curtain
Our news release today, What Will the General Assembly Do?, focuses on the need to consider the consequences of failing to act on the $12.8 billion bid to lease the Turnpike.
Of course, the Turnpike Commission and its patrons and apologists in the General Assembly don't want people to look behind the curtain. But you can rest assured that the Commonwealth Foundation will continue focusing on the need to fully address our transportation infrastructure problems and how the Turnpike Commission is taking us in the wrong direction.
3 comments:
Actually the Commonwealth Foundation is on the wrong side of this one. The bid for the turnpike lease has expired and will NOT be extended. Instead of the Commonwealth Foundation working with PENNDOT, The Turnpike Commission and The General Assembly to try to solve our infrastructure funding shortfall, the only solution this "Think Tank" can come up with is to lease the turnpike. As a "Think Tank" you should be able to THINK of more than one solution. I think that says a lot about the incompetence of The Commonwealth Foundation, that they cannot come up with more than one solution to this issue. Look at all the money The Commonwealth Foundation has WASTED on their turnpike commission bashing website and TV commercials. I would like know how much of our tax dollars goes to the Commonwealth Foundation??
Right, lets blame a commission of the state for all our infrastructure problems. How funny...
Zero - that's how much of your tax dollars goes to the Commonwealth Foundation. Are you kidding me? Did you not even take enough time off your work at the Turnpike Commission to think through your comment?
And leasing the Turnpike is not the "only solution" we can think of. Public private partnerships in new capital projects, competitive contracting of mass transit, reducing earmarks and pork barrel projects, and eliminating prevailing wage laws are among the the myriad of policy alternatives we have trumpeted. I think it is pretty incompetent of you to not realize that.
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