{"id":2055,"date":"2009-04-21T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-04-21T00:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:58:48","slug":"skybox_buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"Skybox Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while; it’s a petty thing, but still something that goes to the heart of my irritation (and I think other people’s) with the way government is run today.<\/p>\n

Here’s a blurry snapshot I took at LAX last night as we waited for the parking shuttle:<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a ‘LAX Flyaway’ bus, a service of the Los Angeles World Airports “…a unique system of four airports owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles.<\/i>“<\/p>\n

And it’s registered in Wyoming<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Now it makes a lot of sense to register a commercial vehicle in Wyoming…which costs a flat $60\/yr. In California the CVRA fee (assuming a 48,000 pound GVWR) would be $1,161 plus license and registration.<\/p>\n

Commercial vehicles with appropriate permits are allowed to operate in California. So I’ll wager that we get a few dollars extra; but right now a City-sponsored transit agency is skirting state taxes in a way that would doubtless get a private bus line in trouble.<\/p>\n

And the problem is that private citizens look at our political leadership playing the corners and we ask why it is that we don’t as well.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal wonders why the Los Angeles city government doesn’t play by the same rules he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}