The Sound Transit board will likely vote tonight to approve a $6,000 bonus and a 3 percent raise for CEO Joni Earl… which is a little surprising considering the way she has apparently wrought disaster upon our region:

The move comes even as ridership on the new Central Link light-rail line remains far short of the 2010 target of 26,600 average daily trips, and the Sounder North commuter-rail line is frequently canceled because of mudslides.

Geez… Mayor Nickels gets fired for not shoveling the snow from our driveways, but Earl gets a raise after personally causing dozens of mudslides? What’s up with that? And the falling short of projected daily trips? Well, at least that Great Recession Earl apparently caused is also causing automobile traffic to fall far short of projections too, so I guess there’s a bit of silver lining.

But who knew Joni Earl was so powerful that she could cause mudslides and economic downturns?

7 replies on “Joni Earl’s Reign of Terror”

  1. WTF!

    Mudslides aside, publicly paid CEOs should not be getting pay raises and bonuses when most county and city union workers (probably including transit workers) are taking voluntary pay cuts to help cover the budget shortfalls everywhere.

  2. Contracts are contracts, as the Wall Street Types and mortgage bankers so primly remind us whenever we question their compensation or business practices.

    As for the landslides, I think she must have those neutron rays she can project from her eyeballs.

  3. I’m far more worried about Joni Balter, even if I mistakenly call her Joni Earl online sometimes.

    @2 is correct, but her neutron ray eyes are officially classified as a Transit Secret.

  5. Didn’t Nickels get elected Mayor after losing how much money on Sound Transit?

    This really isn’t shocking.

  6. I think this is fantastic. Sound Transit is the only public agency not cutting things left and right due to the recession, largely because of her planning. She deserves it.

  7. She earns every dollar she receives. He has done a lot of good for transit in the Puget Sound region. Hope her health is improving.

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