Comments on: ECAT Introduces New Tech Features

By: brokefromtaxes

brokefromtaxes — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 23:32:40 +0000

So, which commissioner has a stake in that wifi contract?
Just like the rest of you, it just makes me steaming mad for this kind of waste to happen. Raise taxes on gas for ecat regardless of what the public wanted.
I say cut the bus all together, let some private company take over transportation and quit wasting the working people’s tax money.
Pretty sad we have to subsidize every thing in this place, I’m tired of it.
Work too hard to give my $ away. I don’t care if people need the bus or not.
Walk, ride a bike or something. Save your $ and get a car like the rest of us.
No need for the ecat to be burning up tax money that should be cut, NOT reallocated to some other hair brain scheme on the other side of town that has no impact on me.
That’s not selfish, it’s common sense, something gov’t has no idea what it is.

By: James Guilford

James Guilford — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:06:35 +0000

Well, now we know where the 4 cent per gallon gas tax imposed by the county commissioners the first of this year is going. Not only free trolley for the tourist on the beach. Has anyone seen how many empty buses are just driving around? It’s kinda hard to see inside with the blackout windows. But look close and you can make out the driver’s head. It would be cheaper to replace the buses with nine passenger vans.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:33:08 +0000

Less than 3% of escambia county residents use ECAT. So in reality over 97% of us are being penalized to help out 3% of the county. That is why this country is going to collapse. A 5 year old is even smart enough to know its better to help 97% of the people instead of 3%. I also buy as much as I can in Alabama.

By: JD

JD — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:27:51 +0000

I would like to know why they are providing Wi-fi with my 4 cent per gallon tax increase that we didn’t vote on. How about getting a answer from the CC on this.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:21:54 +0000

Kane,

People DO pay to ride it; however, our county refused to increase the cost of the rider’s ticket and instead opted to tax everyone else at .04 a gallon of gas. So while they may technically pay a very small fee to ride the bus, it is the taxpaying citizens who had to subsidize ECAT.

I don’t take what is being said as classism, I take it as fed up hard working tax payers who are tired of others suckling the teat of government.

By: Kane

Kane — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:54:10 +0000

Wow such negativity and classism in these posts. My Grandmother and I rode the ecat exclusively when I was a young child. It was always a fund adventure for me. No we were not on food stamps or any other assistance. She just liked to ride the bus because she did not have a driver license. Many people ride those buses not just those that are on government assistance. Also the ecat is not a subsidiary, it is not provided for free you actually have to pay to ride it.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:11:13 +0000

This is why I buy my gas in Alabama and while I am there, I also buy most other things.
I only go down to Pensacola when absolutely necessary.

By: Neighbor

Neighbor — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:58:48 +0000

If they can’t afford their own transportation, they can’t afford to have devices that use wifi. This is ridiculous

By: c.w.

c.w. — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:50:52 +0000

The union at it’s best. More freebies for the welfare people. Lowery must be proud.

By: Lisa Fuller

Lisa Fuller — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:15:38 +0000

This is just another shining example of our tax dollars at work.