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All transit have to be on
similar regulatory web page
With all of the native transit companies nonetheless under pre-pandemic ridership, but extra of us are headed to the workplace, I’ve noticed an attention-grabbing change in commuting.
Many commuters are utilizing rideshare corporations. These rideshare corporations and their drivers must act and be handled as to what they’re, business carriers of passengers, whether or not a Passenger Stage Company or Transportation Community Corporations, per the CPUC. All drivers for a rideshare firm should be background checked, to be licensed via the DMV, their automobiles registered as business automobiles and their drivers should have business insurance coverage in the identical method that transit operators should comply.
If transit needs to get again to pre-pandemic ridership, you will need to get all types of attainable transit abiding by the identical licensing and insurance coverage necessities.
Conrad Schapira
Milpitas
CEQA not at fault
in housing disaster
Re: “Legislature avoids key points, similar to hearth insurance coverage disaster” (Web page A6, Aug. 17).
Dan Walters’ commentary mistakenly blames the California Environmental High quality Act (CEQA) for the state’s housing disaster, blatantly disregarding empirical proof on the contrary.
Researchers at The Housing Workshop and UC Berkeley Legislation known as out the true culprits in our reasonably priced housing scarcity: excessive land/development prices, restrictive native zoning practices and lack of financing for reasonably priced housing. Environmental regulation is to not blame.
CEQA has enabled decision-makers to guard public well being, assist clear air and water, keep away from constructing in hazardous areas, and protect treasured pure areas all through California for 50 years.
Walters criticizes the governor for not recommending new laws to streamline housing approvals. However the Legislature has already exempted or streamlined most housing tasks in city infill areas. Housing shouldn’t be used as a pretext to additional weaken California’s foremost environmental regulation.
Lennie Roberts
Legislative Advocate, Inexperienced Foothills
Portola Valley
Inexperienced senator
hurts nationwide safety
A primary-time senator with completely no earlier expertise of any variety is holding up a whole bunch of army promotions due to its coverage to help service folks with undesirable pregnancies.
If U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberfield disagrees with the coverage, then he ought to write a regulation prohibiting the coverage. Promotions and undesirable pregnancies are two various things as somebody ought to clarify to the rookie Republican senator from Alabama. Each must be addressed individually. The checklist of unapproved promotions grows every day, hurting our nation’s readiness and its army households, withholding earned wage will increase, hindering relocation, and getting their kids prepared for fall.
Regardless of the consequence, two issues should change. Nobody senator ought to ever be allowed to wield a lot energy for such misconstrued functions. We have to elect skilled, educated and completed officers, and Tuberfield will not be one.
Raymond Grzan
Morgan Hill
Ramaswamy is
simply Trump 2.0
Re: “Ramaswamy takes heart stage” (Web page A4, Aug. 25).
Watching Vivek Ramaswamy carry out through the GOP major debate raises a number of questions.
On condition that he fancies himself as Trump 2.0, does he significantly assume that the Trump cult base will go for New Coke as a substitute of the Unique? Or is he only a stand-in for Trump, who could not participate in any of the debates? It’s the identical shtick — speaking over the others, insulting everybody, uttering outrageous statements. Why is he operating as a reproduction of his idol, along with his age being his solely level of differentiation? A vice presidential slot, maybe?
Chandran Cheriyan
Saratoga
Trump provides greatest hope
of peace in Ukraine
Re: “Ukraine help faces a stress check from GOP” (Web page A7, Aug. 26).
Asmer Madhani’s article focuses on Vivek Ramaswamy’s criticism of Biden administration futility in specious spending on the Ukrainian conflict.
