> If we were a "progressive" European country, we might well be trying to figure out how to privatize WMATA or the NYC MTA. Instead, we're trying to figure out

> If we were a "progressive" European country, we might well be trying to figure out how to privatize WMATA or the NYC MTA. Instead, we're trying to figure out how to turn one of the few bits of American infrastructure that isn't an international embarrassment into a public service. My understanding is that the private companies that ran Brooklyn Manhattan transit and others couldn’t run as private companies which is how we have the MTA? They started private as well, right? If you’re worried about cost, follow the money. Why are police officers the highest paid MTA employees? For all this talk of union busting, why isn’t any of it directed at the police?