Yet another Bush Administration WTF

The Federal Transit Administration recently made a ruling that expands the definition of charter bus service to keep publicly funded transit agencies from competing with charter bus companies when they provide premium fare service, like to football games. However, this isn't really a charter service organized and paid for by one person, rather, it's a special transit service, with the bus company doing the organizing and each rider paying an individual fare into the farebox. And according to California regulations, this makes it legally a transit service, not a charter service, and a license to operate charter service isn't enough to provide it, and it can only be operated by a transit provider. The end result might well be that nobody is allowed to operate this service at all. WTF.