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...mandatory leave days (he slashed his salary 25%). Bucking the wisdom that you don't take on city-hall unions, he pushed for an incentive-based compensation system for public employees, which voters approved in 2003. And in his biggest score, he won approval for a $4.7 billion mass-transit plan, which involved persuading voters, along with about a dozen mayors in seven regional counties, to back a sales-tax hike...
...arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
...TRANSIT CHIPWICH...
CHICAGO A $55 million budget gap has transit officials debating doomsday scenarios for the El and buses, including hiking fares from $1.75 to $3.40, laying off 3,500 employees and cutting service...
...Francisco residents got a shock earlier this month when transit authorities proposed raising fares on the city's cable cars this fall from $3 to $5, to help close a $57 million budget deficit. Tight budgets are cramping public transportation in cities across the country. A look at how transit fares are faring. --By Jeninne Lee-St. John with bureau reports...