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BART wants funding
to proceed restoration

Re: “BART’s want for cash fuels toll hike difficulty” (Web page A6, June 28).

I couldn’t disagree extra together with your editorial admonishing BART.

The federal authorities had supplied COVID “handouts” to over 14.7 million recipients amounting to over $2.3 trillion. BART has been severely impacted by COVID with plummeting ridership. Throughout restoration, they want all the help they will get to rebuild.

It’s unconscionable to counsel that BART run fewer trains — inconveniencing individuals who rely upon BART for his or her livelihoods. Sen. Scott Wiener’s proposal (to extend bridge tolls to help the company) is suitable — if it propels individuals to transform to utilizing mass transit over driving. Aside from the Massachussetts-New York-New Jersey space, mass transit on this nation is severely missing. We have to do every little thing in our energy to reverse this development.

Let’s encourage companies by offering them with acceptable budgets and encourage commuters by offering them with incentives. That is higher for the surroundings. Editorials like yours have the other impact.

Prakash Narayan
Fremont

Artwork displays what
is sweet in our lives

Good artwork could be a mirror displaying us tips on how to be higher individuals. Take the latest movie “Otto.” We first meet Otto as a really sad (certainly suicidal) one who’s continuously impolite to these round him. However his neighbors didn’t let their damage emotions maintain them from persevering with to succeed in out to him.

It’s mistaken to chop individuals out of your life simply because they damage your emotions. We’re generally initially damage by issues we really want to listen to. Moreover, asking others that can assist you is an efficient factor, regardless of how you are feeling about them. It provides them alternatives to do good.

Love isn’t a sense (as many wrongly consider). It’s a willingness to do good to others regardless of how you are feeling about them, even when they’ve wrongly damage you. Absolutely, Jesus Christ’s emotions had been damage incessantly. However that didn’t cease him from continuously doing good.

Christopher Andrus
Dublin

Walgreens damage by not
serving to ladies’s well being

Re: “Walgreens goals to chop prices amid monetary woes” (Web page C7, June 28).

The June 28 article on Walgreens’ monetary woes missed different probably causes for monetary ache: