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Part XV: Transportation nRESOLUTIONTOREPEALSPECIALPRIVILEGESINTRANSIT

ALECs model Resolution to Repeal Special Privileges In Transit would reduce or eliminate costly specialprivileges that grant transit workers benefits and provisions above the vast majority of American workers.Model ResoluiionWHEREAS, the nation faces serious problems of urban traffic congestion and air pollution; andWZZEZtEAS, ubstitution of transit trips by automobile drivers reduces raffic congestion and air pollution; andWHEZUIAS, substitution of transit trips by automobile drivers has been a principal policy justification for spendingmore than $200 billion to subsidize ransit operations and constmct expensive rail systems;andWZfEmS, a great percentageof tra ffic congestion and air pollution is attributable to the journey to work; andWHERfZ4S, overwhelming evidence indicates that the percentage of people using transit for the work tripcontinues to decline, with market share decreasesbetween 1980 and 1990 of mere than 30 percent in half of thenations metropolitan areas with more than one million people, and market share increases n only two of thelargest 39 metropolitan areas;andWHEZtRAS, public transit unit costs have risen well in excess of inflation, despite evidence that unit costs insimilar private and public industries have declined relative to inflation; andWHEREAS, public transits extraordinary cost escalation required cancellation of services that reduced transitridership and has precluded the establishment of additional services that might have increased public transitsmarket share; andWHEREAS, public transits extraordinary cost escalation is at least partially attributable to the onerous provisionsand administration of Section 13(c) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended,andWZZEZCEAS,ection 13(c) provides special privileges for public transit workers far in excessof the rights of othaworkers, thereby serving a private, rather than a public purpose; andWHERZXS, Section 13(c) has been administered by the US. Department of Labor in such a manner that it hascreated disincentives for public transit organizations to implement innovative programs that would cost effectivelyimprove mobility,NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the legislature requests that the Congress of the United Statesrepeal Section 13(c) at the earliest possible opportunity, making transit workers subject to the same body of laborlaw as applies to the vast majority of American workers; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that pending repeal of Section 13(c), the Legislature requests hat the Presidentinstruct the Secretary of Labor to not impose labor provisions that are greater than the law requires; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that pending repeal of Section 13(c), the Legislature requests hat the Presidentinstruct the Secretary of Labor to not extend Section 13(c) privileges beyond the extent of federal funding; andBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that pending repeal of Section 13(c), the Legislature requests hat the Presidentinstruct the Secretary of Labor to require that any compensation or other remedy under Section 13(c) be deniedunless harm is a sole and direct consequenceof the receipt of a particular federal grant; andRR ZT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk of both Houses of the Legislature transmit copies of thisresolution to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the

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Part XV: Transportation nSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives, the U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Members ofCongress.

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