UTA's lead official makes in excess of $300,000, and to some of us, that seems scandal enough.
But what if, to top it off, he were to take an out-of-state trip every 20 days, at the public's expense, of course.
Lee Davidson story in the Sunday Salt Lake Tribune deserves more than to end up a one-story-and-done thing. Yes, the UTA officials, who have run up $610,000 in travel expenses in just a year-and-a-half, can say they are only going out and about in order to learn about transit systems elsewhere.
But, this does seem too much. If you are making as much money as they make, take vacations to those places at your own expense and see the transit systems while you are there. Don't run up tabs on the public, which includes a lot of poor people. Some of them not only can not only afford visits to Hong Kong and Italy, but have to scrape just to come up with the bus fare across town.
Belgium, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland . . .
If you make a portion of your income on the backs of the poor, think twice before visiting these places at their expense.
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