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Taxpayers deserve
additional BART research
Re: “Frequent sense says construct BART to downtown San Jose” (Web page A12, July 16).
Former San Jose Mayor Gonzales’ op-ed opines on bringing BART to downtown whatever the devastating impact on native enterprise. In accordance with him, we’ve got accomplished all of the research crucial earlier than launching this Nineteenth-century debacle. Maybe he ought to take an in depth have a look at the outcomes of previous native authorities points from his years as mayor and examine them to BART and VTA.
Two memorable missteps come to thoughts: 1) Rubbish Gate (secret negotiations that proceed to value each family dearly at the moment); 2)The Metropolis Corridor Rotunda debacle — a completely ineffective assembly facility that stands as a tribute to poor architectural design, misplaced house that we proceed to pay for.
Evaluate these to BART and VTA whose administration buildings have brought about one to be on the quick monitor to chapter and the opposite to be hailed as one of many worst transportation companies within the nation. Sure, the taxpayers deserve the research former Mayor Tom McEnery proposes.
Wealthy Crowley
Vice chairman, Residents for Fiscal Duty
San Jose
Hazard is the purpose
in sideshows
Re: “Let’s take sideshows from streets to Coliseum” (Web page A12, July 16).
Debra Shulman, Sunday, suggests we permit “secure place” sideshows on the Oakland Coliseum. She is evidently unaware that hazard is the entire thought, not a chance.
We had weapons fired 50 ft from our house in Willow Glen. The rubber stench is gagging, polluting the air and water, past the incessant horrendous screeching. Folks hang around the automotive window as modern-day bullfighters would possibly. Spectators see how shut they’ll get to drifting vehicles. Some have died.
Take all that away, and so they’re on the road by default.
Robert Wahler
San Jose
Overlook carbon seize
and ditch fossil fuels
Re: “Emissions venture at energy plant seen as game-changer” (Web page B3, July 18).
Whereas it’s at all times encouraging to see California leaders making an attempt to attain our state’s local weather objectives, their current dalliance with carbon seize and sequestration (CCS) is downright silly. CCS does nothing greater than present a lifeline to the oil and fuel business to keep up its established order of local weather air pollution and environmental degradation.
Carbon seize is a prohibitively costly course of depending on unrealized and unproven know-how. Additional, the deployment of carbon seize operations close to inhabitants facilities and weak communities poses important risks. The transportation and storage of captured carbon can result in leaks, accidents and explosions, releasing poisonous substances into the encompassing atmosphere. This may end up in extreme well being dangers disproportionately affecting already weak communities.
The one respectable option to defend our local weather from the assault of fossil fuels is to cease drilling and fracking for fossil fuels within the first place.
Chirag Bhakta
San Francisco
Delay election till
paperwork case is over
Within the 2024 election, a nationwide safety danger candidate could also be on the presidential poll. This could clang all bells and lift all crimson flags in America. Have we truly come to this? Has our delight of nation completely evaporated?
This won’t be an election, however fairly a nationwide safety catastrophe within the making. The presidential oath consists of defending the nation and the Structure. Inaction isn’t an possibility within the face of a “clear and current hazard.”
President Biden should delay the 2024 presidential election till the categorised doc case is determined. We must always not settle for any candidate from any social gathering who’s indicted for nationwide safety violations. To do in any other case would say America has misplaced its thoughts.
Allen Worth
Montara
Addicts should settle for
some accountability
Re: “Forcing individuals with habit into remedy gained’t work” (Web page A6, July 11).
