Mickey Mouse and Transit

Mickey Mouse - Dream Along with Mickey
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One of the things that "smart growthers" and pro-transit people and organizations do not do is churn out op-eds and send them around and get them published in newspapers around the country.

The anti-planning and anti-transit folks do this quite a bit, especially through the Heritage Foundation and the Reason Foundation.

Right now, the National Taxpayers Union has an op-ed out, saying that if Disney can run transit privately, why can't government run transit systems be run privately?

See the story, "Disney does it, we can, too" from the Columbus Dispatch.

The interesting thing is that this story was part of a "pro and con" op-ed feature that is produced by the Mclatchy-Tribune Information Service. But many of the newspapers only ran the pro-privatization feature. See "Con: In real cities, privatizing transit has failed miserably" for the other article.