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Article #228Re: MARTA all year round!
From: Jud Ready
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00
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ac75@prism.gatech.edu (Alexander G. Carver [Data]) writes: >MARTA's discount program is the same as any other company's program: buy >enough units of whatever they're selling and they'll reduce the cost a little >so that you pay less but they still make a profit. MARTA does not turn a profit, in the sense of sales being greater than expenditures. They receive a rather substantial sum of money from Uncle Sam to provide public transportation. Even the revenue from the lovely ads on buses and trains does not generate significant cashflow. The $1.25 we pay barely pays for the electricity and gas to run the trains and buses. The *vast* majority of MARTA's funds are federal government subsidies. ________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Jud Ready | http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wr35/ | | Georgia Institute of Technology | | | Materials Science & Engineering | gt2279c@prism.gatech.edu | |_________________________________|_____________________________________|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1135d7,88833a4ae945356a X-Google-Attributes: gid1135d7,public X-Google-Thread: 108158,88833a4ae945356a X-Google-Attributes: gid108158,public X-Google-Thread: 101be2,88833a4ae945356a X-Google-Attributes: gid101be2,public From: gt2279c@prism.gatech.edu (Jud Ready) Subject: Re: MARTA all year round! Date: 1996/09/19 Message-ID: <51rm79$8es@acmex.gatech.edu> X-Deja-AN: 184109447 references: <51pcm8$rar@mordred.gatech.edu> organization: Georgia Institute of Technology newsgroups: git.announce,git.general,git.olympics.official