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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Jeff Coykendall Says It Like It Is

Mountain View Voice|Letters to the Editor (April 16, 2004):

BART riders stuck without buses to complete the trip

Editor:

Visualize this: BART gets built at the expense of every other sensible mass transit solution at billions of dollars. The first day it opens, some 20,000 East Bay residents (not Santa Clara County taxpayers) get out of their cars and get on board BART for a trip to San Jose and Santa Clara.

They arrive at the end of the line, only to realize that due to BART's expensive ego trip, there are no buses to take them to work, school, the doctor or shopping.

Why are there no buses? Because VTA had to cut back on routes and service to cover the expense of BART.

So, what do those 10,000 to 20,000 passengers do the very next day? They get in their cars, and drive to work, school, the doctor or shopping ... leaving BART cars empty.

Jeff Coykendall

Pinehurst Avenue, Los Gatos

// posted by Penguiniator @ 9:04 AM

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