Editor,
This is an issue that, to me, sums up the inadequacies in our society. We, the tax payers that are paying ever increasing amounts of taxes in our day to day lives, are going to pay $514 million to widen 13 miles of freeway and then have to pay to use it. All of this to move “techies” from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.
Mr. Canepa, who I thought had the publics best interest at heart by “ feeling it was unfair to charge a toll to drive on a public highway,” (“Officials warm up to managed lanes project” in the Monday, Nov. 19, edition of The San Mateo Daily Journal), seems to be changing his thought process, how sad. This just seems to be a great example of corporate interests trying to make a buck on hardworking commuters.
I am a big believer in roads being a public commodity and the notion that taxpayer money is being used to build these roads and tax payers then turn around and pay to drive on these lanes is absolutely insane. This is comparable to having funds allocated to public schools, then parents having to pay tuition.
Jason Kruljac
San Bruno
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(1) comment
Thank you, Jason, for an excellent letter. What's really intriguing is that with all the tremendous issues caused by the tech influx, the communities most affected do not require these companies to pay for the externalities they cause. They get off nearly free on everything. Now imagine if these were "traditional" industries - what do you think would happen?! We are starting to see some steps taken by Mountain View and perhaps San Francisco, but the Peninsula is basically both silent and paralyzed about requiring better outcomes for the MAJORITY population, and not for a minority of spoiled and entitled.
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