Regional transit revenue measure

Thanks for your letter, Ms. Lang, but you’re attempting to conflate the failure of passing the measure with the end of public transportation. And that’s not true at all. The fact that transit unions have been operating at 100% capacity with 50% of less of demand tells everyone that transit unions don’t want to practice any sort of fiscal management and would instead try to fool people into believing a failure to pass a measure will lead to the end of public transportation. Until these folks make an effort at fiscal management, don’t fall for the scare tactics.

We can't afford to support this measure. Vote NO on any and all transit measures (and any other tax measures). We know most, if not all, of the money will go towards paying ever increasing salaries, pensions, and benefits. With no benefit to taxpayers. Remember, these folks burned plenty of money to operate at 100% capacity with only 50% or less demand. We shouldn't encourage them to continue their wasteful ways.

If Public Transportation on the Bay Area was struggling with funding, these almost 30 agencies would start merging to create synergy and reduce friction.

They do not. Just recently SamTrans, Caltrain, BART, VTA, etc. bought new headquarters and invested in more real estate dealing and wheelings an organization with fiscal problem would never pursue.

Some of the ridership issues with these agencies lead directly to SMCTA and C/CAG (Papan, Medina, Canepa, Lee) and their current push for more and more expensive highway widenings and useless highway intersections.