This is where a 'touch it and die' approach needs to be adopted for the funding. The fund can be increased, but it can never be decreased or rerouted. Nothing not part of the expansion or maintenance of the transit project can be folded under its umbrella (aka Pork) and no greedy union can use it as their cudgel or personal slushfund.
Maybe not never reduced. Like if metro line makes a surplus off of its fair price maybe the tax payers don’t need to pay more for that line in the annual budget since the line is self sufficient. But the surplus should not ever be redirected. It should go into a bank account and the only reason money is ever taken out should be for repairs or to cover for a bad year.
This is where a 'touch it and die' approach needs to be adopted for the funding. The fund can be increased, but it can never be decreased or rerouted. Nothing not part of the expansion or maintenance of the transit project can be folded under its umbrella (aka Pork) and no greedy union can use it as their cudgel or personal slushfund.
Maybe not never reduced. Like if metro line makes a surplus off of its fair price maybe the tax payers don’t need to pay more for that line in the annual budget since the line is self sufficient. But the surplus should not ever be redirected. It should go into a bank account and the only reason money is ever taken out should be for repairs or to cover for a bad year.