Translink Hides The Money, Hides The Contracts And Hides any appearance of Transparency, And Avoids Answers To Bob Mackin`s Legitimate Questions

A little cut n paste, this post is all Bob Mackin, .....All I`m adding to this post is, the Straight Good`s language..

Translink is a dishonest, in my opinion corrupt organization, a taxpayer funded free-for-all trough party for friends of Gragor Robertson, the BC Liberals, political insiders like Mike McDonald and Bill Tieleman...

A company that devours $millions of dollars, a taxpayer funded entity that flushes your money down a sewer, at the bottom of the sewer are dirty stinking rats busy chewing away those dollars...

Nothing will change with Translink until the entity, the beast(666) is stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake or machine-gunned down with a barrage of silver bullets...

So, put on your necklace made of garlic gloves, hang on to your prayer beads, load your silver bullets and fire away and repeat after me....."Translink must die..Translink must die...Translink must die"..

From Bob Mackin..

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What does $6 million look like in the bizarro world of TransLink? The $6 million Mayors’ Council Yes campaign advertising budget is, according to the 2013 TransLink annual report, almost one fifth of the entire $30.6 million spent by Transit Police in 2013 or 6.4% of the entire $93.5 million cost of roads and bridges upkeep for 2013. It is, however, less than half of the $13.9 million TransLink quietly spent last December to buy a building in Burnaby that BC Transit sold for a $9 million loss in 2004.
And, $6 million is also the cost to buy a dozen brand new, compressed natural gas buses (or 14 diesel models).

To summarize:

1. Instead of buying more wheels on buses to go round-and-round, TransLink is spending millions of dollars of public dough on spin doctors and doesn’t want you to know the details.
2. The SpokesMayor for the Mayors’ Council referred me to the top staffer of the Mayors’ Council, who avoided my phone calls and email like the plague. His underling sent me a prepared statement that didn’t answer my questions. That top staffer, when quizzed in-person, refused to answer the key questions about how contractors were chosen, who chose them and how much they are getting paid.
3. When asked for the same information, TransLink’s media relations officer refused to answer. Go file an FOI. That’s what she said.

This is TransLink, the $1.4 billion-a-year, public-owned corporation with severe efficiency and integrity problems. Metro Vancouverites rely on this regional monopoly daily to get from point A to point B. It wants your trust, your vote in the non-binding, March 16 to May 29 plebiscite and your money to pay for its $7.5 billion, 10-year expansion.
If it does not feel like being transparent right now about how it is spending millions, just wait until TransLink gets its hands on billions of your dollars to play with for the next decade!

http://bobmackin.ca/?p=2466

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More on Translink`s waste and crony corruption can be found here...


http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/02/translink-referendum-no-translink.html

 Make sure to read another one of Bob Mackin`s great dot connecting pieces(directly below)..

 http://bobmackin.ca/?p=2437

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/01/translink-funding-referendum-and-bill_23.html

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/02/translink-referendum-no-translink.html

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/02/translink-refendum-trough-sucking.html

 http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/02/christy-clark-has-no-brain-proof-is.html

And remember this.....Hell no to Translink, hell no to more taxation, hell no to all the trough sucking pigs!


The Straight Goods

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