Goodbye Cathy Green: transit advocate on OCTA's board
Submitted by Steven on 16 March, 2010 - 6:31am
Last night, the coordinators behind the Transit Advocates of Orange County presented an award to Huntington Beach mayor and former OCTA director Cathy Green for her work on advocating for transit at the OCTA board level. Her term on the OCTA board recently expired. She helped preserve the 24-hour Night Owl bus service cuts for 6 months past its initial ending date, prevented some of the other boardmembers from following through with doubling bus service cuts this March, and was a brave voice for commuters on public transit. I took video of the awards presentation:
Her replacement, Huntington Beach Councilmember Hansen has some big shoes to fill on the OCTA board, especially since Huntington Beach just 2 complete bus lines (including route 74 plus service to Goldenwest College on the 62). Plus, Talbert (76) and Garfield and Main (172) have been cancelled on weekends, Bolsa Chica and Graham (21) now have no service during the mid-day, and Beach Blvd (29), Magnolia (33), and Brookhurst (35) all have faced frequency reduction.
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This woman is a complete idiot
You people are nuts -- giving a worthless award to an even more worthless hack politician.
Don't be stupid
An award is like a gold star. It's a form of encouragement and everybody loves being recognized. She was one of the few people on OCTA's board who bothered to speak up to save some transit service. She and the other politician Janet Nguyen had some balls to defend transit riders/commuters against some powerful freeway/tollway interests, like all the other nutcases on OCTA's Board who either kept silent or wanted to complete the 30% of bus cuts this past Sunday (like Amante & Moorlach).
Nice call
Anonymous: If you believe she was a worthless politician on the OCTA Board, then you must be a person who is perfectly fine with 300,000 service hours cut from the bus system.
Whether or not you agree with her politics, she was one of the few (emphasis on FEW) Orange County politicians who had enough guts to stand up for bus riders.