Interview with Retired Railway Worker

No one knows what the cost will be on the utilities. You do need to let it go through. It's going to cost money to do the studies. The West Star can see parent-like study is out. It's pretty in-depth, and of course they're going to slide it on their side, and that's what I would do or anyone else would do. You're going to tell what you value it at, and the city has to let theirs go through. Compare them, see what it is, but I think it's very important to let the citizens of Pittsburgh vote on this. We vote on school boards that are 20, 30 million dollar projects. This project will be much larger. If I was a city councilman, I think, and I've asked a question a couple times in city councilmen, do they have the right? Well, the three, it only takes three commissioners to say yes. Do they have the legal authority? I would not dispute that at all. I don't think they have the moral authority to make a decision for 20,000 people. Because you make that decision in West Star, and the average year leaves town. You're not going to get them back. There's going to be fees, there's going to be taxes. Right now, something happens. They're very good about getting it on. I've lived, I think, in 17 different locations in the US.

And I don't find the electric rates to be out of hand. My commercial rates are higher than the residential. And we have two commercial buildings in town working on a third. But it works, something happens. We'll have an ice storm. I hope you never have a tornado or anything like Joplin had. I hope that never happens. But you don't know. But what happens, they come in with everything, people from all over and they get in, they get it fixed.