Editor,
In the Oct. 20 edition, Shirley Johnson wrote a letter against Measure RR. Essentially her argument is we must kill Caltrain to save Caltrain. I disagree. We must first save Caltrain, and then make it better.
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To add to Mr. van Ulden’s comment - at least $30 million of taxpayer money from the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which includes Caltrain, will be going to pay for the leaning Millennium Tower of SF fiasco and to pay the millionaire owners of these luxury condos. Also didn’t the CEO of Caltrain and SamTrans just get a $50k bonus (not sure why since ridership plummeted) to push his salary to over $550k? Do we really want to contribute more money to these folks? I don’t see this $30+ million for a judgment and salary helping with any improvements to Caltrain. Vote No on RR.
And let's not forget that a portion of the $40 million of the money that would be raised by Prop RR will go to stabilizing a condominium tower. Another reason to vote NO on RR.
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