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We’ve got the means
to help transit
Re: “Brakes utilized to bridge toll hike invoice” (Web page A1, Aug. 22).
Now that the bridge toll improve to fund public transit operations has been paused, Will McCarthy experiences that “state lawmakers will now should return to the drafting board as they decide tips on how to help the Bay Space’s regional transit system.”
They don’t should look far. An alternate measure that will ask all drivers, not simply these utilizing toll bridges, is already out there for public transit enhancements. AB 595 by Valerie Brown grew to become legislation in 1997. It authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Fee to position a regional poll measure earlier than voters within the 9 counties to hike gasoline taxes by as much as 10 cents per gallon. If voters handed the measure, it could be the primary regional gasoline tax in California.
A comparable improve in electrical automobile annual charges registered within the Bay Space may very well be included so all motorists have a stake in retaining our transit businesses afloat.
Irvin Dawid
Burlingame
Good officers caught
on inside pages
Re: “Extra officers indicted” (Web page A1, Aug. 19) and “Man charged with tried homicide” (Web page B1, Aug. 19).
The small-town dangerous cops get front-page therapy whereas our good cops get acknowledged within the B part.
A San Jose officer will get shot and gravely injured and the suspect is finally arrested after a standoff. No pictures have been fired by the police and no retaliation was taken regardless of a fallen colleague, and no potential for collateral injury resulted. The most effective final result occurred in a foul scenario that might have simply been exacerbated if officers misplaced their cool.
The professionalism demonstrated by the SJPD stands in sharp distinction to the thuggery of some officers and former officers of East Contra Costa County. Whether or not it’s the recruitment, coaching, greatest practices, management or all the above, the SJPD is doing one thing proper. We as a group want to point out our gratitude. In the meantime, dangerous cops have to be rooted out wherever they could function.
Lastly, hope and prayers for our wounded officer.
Artwork Mainfield
San Jose
Time for utility customers
to pay the piper
Re: “PG&E should shoulder value of undergrounding” (Web page A6, Aug. 23).
Sufficient of the whining about PG&E paying to underground energy strains. The folks of California bear many of the blame for not undergrounding them initially.
PG&E by no means cared about the price of undergrounding; it’s a utility. They might have handed the associated fee on to the customers and made a bigger revenue from the elevated charges all these years.
No, the CPUC and the customers allowed this to occur and benefitted from the decrease utility charges. I’ve been in California for over 40 years and have by no means seen any concerted efforts throughout that point to get PG&E to boost our charges by burying the strains. Like everybody else, I accepted the windfall of decrease charges.
So, let’s cease whining now. Let’s settle for the duty that has all the time been ours. It’s previous time for the customers to pay the piper.
Barry Jackson
San Jose
Assist our youth
to seek out their voices
Re: “Bay Space youth applaud landmark Montana verdict” (Web page B1, Aug. 17)
I want to cheer the current ruling in favor of the Montana youth who filed a case in opposition to the state for violating their proper to a “clear and healthful setting” by selling the usage of fossil fuels.
As an educator for greater than 40 years, a number of the most essential classes I can educate my college students are to have the ability to specific their opinions articulately, to interact in our political course of and to turn into advocates for their very own future.
As we start the varsity 12 months, I urge mother and father, educators and college students in all places to boost their voices and act within the face of the local weather disaster.
Diana Mo
San Jose
Altering Structure
solely path to gun management
Re: “Newsom gun management campaign smacks of prior political stunt” (Web page A7, Aug. 22).
Obfuscation is all that may be mentioned of Dan Walters’ oped. The one factor made clear is his place in opposition to gun management. We’ve seen the battle states and courts have over this concern. He insults California’s legal guidelines and acknowledges that gun loss of life charges have fallen, however then hides behind the declare that “different elements” may very well be accountable. Coward.
