METRO: YOUR TRANSPARENCY IS VERY OPAQUE, UNTIL IT WORKS IN YOUR FAVOR

When I emailed Metro with my long list of questions, including how many buses in operation, and bus drivers working, on an average weekday, they responded with the number of buses, actual vehicles on the road for all of the lines, 310, they said, but told me I had to file a Sunshine Act request to find out the amount of bus drivers.

Yesterday they posted this: http://www.nextstopstl.org/11397/metro-explains-monday-metrobus-delays/

70 bus drivers out of a total of 572 total called out.  Guess things are only readily transparent when it serves their purposes.

(My estimate, supported by questioning random bus drivers, is that about 360 work on any given regular weekday, not including paratransit.)

In working to uncover the utter mismanagement of funds that led to the shut down of 24 lines in 2009, and which Metro blames the impending July fare hike necessity, I have uncovered more and more corruption, scandal, and mismanagement, not too mention outright deception to the public.

ST. LOUIS, PLEASE BEGIN DEMANDING TOTAL TRANSPARENCY AT METRO AND ALL OTHER AGENCIES THAT RECEIVE FEDERAL MONIES!

THIS IS YOUR CITY!  OCCUPY IT! 

THERE NEEDS TO BE A PUBLIC AUDIT OF METRO BI-STATE! http://optinstl.blogspot.com/2014/04/call-for-public-audit-of-metro-bi-state.html

(Metro insists that my desire to know these details is "irrelevant" and "ridiculous".  Only by dissecting every aspect of their daily operations can we really come to the truth about where our money is really going.  Since the operation of the buses and trains is supposed to be their primary function, I thought it was best to start with that.  Of course, now I need to find out how many of these drivers are part-time, etc.)