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AC Transit doesn’t
duplicate BART service
Re. “Three can lead AC Transit previous monetary woes,” Web page A8, Sept. 11:
AC Transit doesn't “duplicate” BART transbay service. Relatively, it dietary supplements by going to the place BART can’t, and relieves visitors congestion by eradicating automobiles from the street. BART, alone, can't do the job. Plus, many riders both really feel safer above floor or don’t need to cope with the inconvenience of transferring from bus to BART, and again.
AC’s transbay riders truly subsidize the district’s native service and the district could be silly to discontinue transbay service. Transbay riders pay their fares and lots of locals don't. It’s fiscally prudent, and an awesome service to the transportation grid, for AC to not solely proceed the service however to rev it again as much as pre-pandemic service.
George Mathews
Antioch
Ames preserve taxpayers
in thoughts on BART board
Elizabeth Ames is working for reelection to the BART Board representing District 6.
At BART, the pursuits of the taxpayers and BART riders don't all the time get the eye and precedence they deserve. Ames has labored onerous and successfully to vary this and could be counted on to proceed doing so. She is concerned by what seems to be the undue affect of outdoor stress teams and, as an engineer, works to enhance each BART’s operation and its building initiatives whereas on the similar time holding an in depth eye on prices.
Ames is actively engaged in attempting to make issues higher at BART, whereas on the similar time remaining intensely targeted on and constant to the pursuits of the southeast Bay Space. She deserves a second time period at BART and the taxpayers and BART riders want her there.
Gerald Cauthen
Oakland
“Homelessness” is
not about housing
To have any hope of fixing an issue, one should first accurately establish the underlying downside.
Homelessness has nothing to do with housing. It's truly only a symptom of the issues which have resulted in dysfunction. It's an habit subject, typically with psychological sickness. Shelters exist throughout the nation the place one can dwell at no cost, nevertheless, medicine and alcohol will not be allowed. The primary purpose of a shelter is to assist finish habit to not allow it. Few select shelters attributable to this restriction.
Permitting tenting in public areas, some consider, is type, however they're truly enabling a really self-destructive conduct. Mass encampments are a reasonably new phenomenon. Forty years in the past, there have been by no means tents pitched alongside public areas. It merely was not allowed.
We have to return to strict legislation enforcement with arrests to reclaim our communities and save lives.
Mark Fernwood
Danville