The Allegheny Institute is a non-profit research and education organization. Our mission is to defend the interests of taxpayers, citizens and businesses against an increasingly burdensome and intrusive government. To that end, we will formulate and advocate public policies that roll back the size and scope of local government as well as create a more accountable government. Our efforts will be guided by the principles of free enterprise, property rights, civil society and individual freedom that are the bedrock upon which this nation was founded.
Introduction: The Transit Revitalization Investment District (TRID) Act (P.L. 1801, No. 238) was first passed in 2004 and took effect in 2005. The legislation’s intent was to provide a means of encouraging private development near (within a half-mile of) a transit station with the aim of increasing ridership.
The release of a final report of findings and recommendations and a pending lawsuit could have significant impact on the Allegheny County Retirement System (system), which provides pension benefits to employees of the county and the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA).
Transit Revitalization Investment Districts (TRIDs) are a politically motivated gimmick to get more people out of cars and into public transit that has run into reality, concludes a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
“The bottom line is that for all the effort to write the legislation that establishes the methodology and requirements to create [it] — and the implicit promises of a major boost in public transit use — TRID is an abject failure,” says Jake Haulk, president-emeritus of the Pittsburgh think tank (in Policy Brief Vol. 26, No. 30).
A researcher at a Pittsburgh think tank is questioning the Allegheny County Airport Authority’s oft-repeated claim that the now up and running new $1.7 billion midfield terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) will save the authority tens of millions of dollars a year.
