The students pay fees to help cover costs of bus passes and UTA provides a discount for this significant subsidy. Now UTA has raised the price, from $20 to $120, by slashing the discount! That drastically raises the price of your student pass by 600%!
Sometimes, we are told, that cuts must be made...
In 2010, UTA General Manager, John Inglish made $339,179 before bonuses and allowances. He makes more than his peers in New York, LA, DC, and Chicago, some of which are 60 times the size of Utah’s. Some of UTA's top executives’ salaries went up by as much as 32 percent between 2005 and 2009, in the middle of a recession and even as Inglish cut back on bus lines and laid employees off to save money. Next on the chopping block? Your student passes!
These salaries are determines by the UTA Board of Trustees in a secret process, the records of which they refuse to make public.
Putting the Public Back in Transportation!
