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Fare inspectors would
reduce crime on BART
We have now all heard concerning the crimes dedicated on BART and Muni. There have been assaults, thefts and worse. We have to preserve these criminals off of our transit programs. The straightforward manner to do that is by ensuring individuals don’t get on with out paying their fare.
Some transit programs have roving fare inspectors. In my rides on BART and Muni, I've not seen an inspector. On the LA Metro, the free-riders gained’t get far, as a result of the inspectors are out in drive. It’s not a matter of amassing extra fare income; it’s a matter of eliminating the criminals as a result of criminals don’t pay their fares.
BART desires to spend thousands and thousands on new fare gates to maintain out the freeloaders. That is too costly, to not point out the time now we have to attend. There’s no cause to attend for brand spanking new fare gates after we can have some fare inspectors proper now.
David Ogilvie
South San Francisco
Rejecting quarry
a win for Bay Space
Daniel Hendry’s letter (“Info demand we help new quarry,” Web page A6, Aug. 31) helps allowing Sargent Ranch Quarry, labeling the Amah Mutsun’s connection to the land the tribe calls Juristac “controversial.” The Draft Environmental Impression Report (DEIR) for the quarry acknowledges that Juristac’s whole panorama is a sacred non secular web site for the Amah Mutsun. It states that the injury to Juristac could be “important and unavoidable.”
Quarries create CO2, use huge quantities of water and pollute water. The DEIR says that the quarry would improve site visitors congestion and trigger air air pollution. Many space corporations recycle concrete and cement to be used in development. Recycling produces much less greenhouse gases and makes use of much less water than new mining for supplies does. Hendry doesn’t substantiate his declare that supplies from Juristac may substitute these imported from Canada.
Rejecting the quarry helps indigenous peoples who've had their land stolen and desecrated for hundreds of years. Rejecting the quarry is a win for all the Bay Space.
Dorah Rosen
Santa Cruz
Feelings complement
details in quarry debate
Re. “Info demand we help new quarry,” Web page A6, Aug. 31:
I write as a rhetorical scholar and member of a “well-meaning social justice group” dismissed by Daniel Hendry in a current letter relating to the proposed quarry at Juristac. Hendry’s major level is to dismiss opposition to the quarry as “emotional appeals.” The actual fact is that emotional appeals (pathos), understood as essential since Aristotle, are complementary to details (logos).
Pathos acknowledges that arguments are primarily based in values. Hendry neglects to interrogate his personal values, which mirror the precise positionality of colonizers, looking for to extract assets and wealth from the lands. Non-indigenous peoples defending Juristac are asserting a unique ethic, recognizing our obligations, and calling on Amah Mutsun testimony (that is proof and logic) alongside proof of great environmental injury to contest this mine.
We should be very cautious about “commonsense” appeals like Hendry’s to “details, not emotion,” and interrogate the values, assumptions and potential violence such appeals masks.
Amy Lueck
Soquel
Nails distinction between
Cheney and McCarthy
I needed to write in help of all that Chandran Cheriyan expressed of their letter on Aug. 23, “Cheney is a distinction to sycophant McCarthy.” (Web page A6)
Whereas I don’t agree with Liz Cheney’s politics, I additionally admire and respect the unwavering braveness and integrity she has proven relating to Donald Trump’s tried coup. She put our nation’s survival earlier than her personal profession, positively a profile in braveness candidate.
In distinction, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy, who initially (in worry of his life) did converse out in opposition to Trump’s actions, determined to place his personal self-serving political wishes (“being speaker of the Home”) forward of our democracy and bow down at Trump’s ft.
When historical past writes about that terrifying January day and the politicians who bravely referred to as out our former president and his supporters, McCarthy’s title is not going to be amongst them, however Liz Cheney’s will.
Sandy Foehr
San Jose
Mortgage debt challenge reveals
lack of accountability
I discover a lack of accountability in those that knowingly signed a doc after which get upset as a result of they solely pay curiosity. It seems they're unaware of how a mortgage works.
They anticipate everybody to really feel unhealthy for them as a result of they're unable to pay for his or her mortgage and wish to dwell the glamorous life, but there are thousands and thousands of Individuals who've medical debt and nobody appears to care. I name on President Joe Biden, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and the remainder of the progressives to deal with this huge challenge that's hurting older Individuals.
I do know three individuals with greater than $60,000 in medical debt and on the verge of going to collections. Then again, why does it value so darn a lot for school? God forbid we should always tackle that drawback.
Michael McWalters
Alviso