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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
Jordan Bateman already crying about the salary:
http://www.taxpayer.com/blog/translink-hires-a-new-ceo
I think people like Bateman are just extremely bitter and jealous. On the one hand, they are right-wing capitalists to the extreme, who want to see low taxes and huge corporate salaries for CEOs and Executives. After all, they've earned it right?
On the other hand, anybody involved in government must be evil and stupid, because government is useless and we shouldn't pay anyone above $30k in a government position.
Nevermind the fact that Translink is a much larger, much more complex organization to manage. Many high level government positions are 24/7 and more stressful that private companies. I used to work for a ~500 person private company, annual revenues in the $300M range, and the CEO was paid $500k plus options. I saw nothing wrong with it for the size of the business. A similar amount for a Translink CEO is a bargain.
Bateman on the other hand has worked in government himself in Langley, and now works some some pseudo organization that lives off of donations, probably registered as a non-profit with the government for preferential tax treatment, and takes home significantly less than $100k. He idolizes his corporate heroes, while at the same time being bitter about those who have risen to high positions in government organizations. |
We all know Bateman is a troll.
The fact is you have to pay someone competitively to get someone competent and experienced. There is not a University program out there churning out "transportation engineering and blame taking" people to be CEO's, largely transportation companies either have people who are too in love with Urban Design, and or too in love with the technology, and throw a temper tantrum when they can't agree on anything.
An inexperienced player in the transportation game would keep rolling out light rail and street cars into places because "that is just what we were doing before, build it and they will come", but a more experienced professional would realize that is completely backwards, and the transportation network should align with the municipal needs and regional interests. Not the whim of the current election cycle. Metro Vancouver (yes that includes you too City of Surrey) wants fast, frequent, safe transit, so that is what should be built.
We should not be building things that do not grow ridership, and light rail does not grow ridership, it only cannibalizes bus ridership, and if the bus service is already poor, a train is only going to make it worse. That is because once a train is put down, then all the buses terminate at the train. If you don't have frequent trains, then the train may as well not exist, and keep the bus service's full route instead. You build trains when you can't fit any more buses down an express route, eg the frequency can't be increased further.
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