Dear Editor,
So where has the Valley Transportation Authority led us with
their Southern Gateway Study? We’ve gone from worse to
”
worser
”
as VTA’s leadership is lost in radical socialist policy,
dedicated to the idea that taxpayers are a bottomless pit of
endless tax subsidies, that BART to San Jose is worth any cost and
that there is no limit to the amount of sales taxes that our
leaders can impose.
Dear Editor,
So where has the Valley Transportation Authority led us with their Southern Gateway Study? We’ve gone from worse to “worser” as VTA’s leadership is lost in radical socialist policy, dedicated to the idea that taxpayers are a bottomless pit of endless tax subsidies, that BART to San Jose is worth any cost and that there is no limit to the amount of sales taxes that our leaders can impose.
Meanwhile, we give away rides more expensive than those on the supersonic Concorde with radical socialist lite rail, and plan even more expensive ones like the bullet train. VTA and Silicon Valley Leadership Group are lost, not in space, but in a self-defeating policy that the Soviet Union proved for all ages is both unsound and unsustainable. VTA/SVLG will tax motorists out of their cars, while Silicon Valley’s largest employers reap the benefit of having the taxpayers foot the bills so that their employees can get to and from work. Worse, we even have the taxpayers expected to subsidize transit to Wal-mart. Have our leaders gone mad? Transit for the wealthiest corporations in America! In effect, welfare for corporate America! Taxpayers paying the world’s richest people their hard-earned tax dollars. Are our leaders crazy?
Is there any wonder why roads remain unbuilt, unrepaired, and unsafe?
This Southern Gateway Study is a confession by VTA’s lost leadership that they’ve so misdirected highway money to public-sector transit that the region suffers the consequences of their gross negligence. It is another reason why the Santa Clara County Grand Jury indictment of VTA’s leadership must not be ignored. If also further justifies the conclusion of the MIT study of all the nation’s transit agencies that found VTA to be the worst run transit agency in the United States. It proves, once again, the failure of our transport policy in which we attempt the impossible: marriage of radical socialist mass transit with capitalism, free enterprise transport.
This Southern Gateway Study is confirmation that our leaders are berserk. Their schizophrenic, self-defeating policy will be damned by future generations. What is the explanation for our extravagantly-funded agency failures? Why do we spend so much tax money furnishing the likes of the VTA and Metropolitan Transportation Commission with unlimited resources of highly compensated personnel and incomprehensible sums, yet see conditions in the highway arteries of the region, state and nation, deteriorating? What are we doing wrong?
If there must be a new freeway between the Don Pacheco Y and U.S. 101, then it ought to be constructed entirely in Santa Clara County, so that the burden for paying for it falls on the county with the most tax resources, and not on San Benito County, the one with the least tax resources in the region.
Joe Thompson, Tres Pinos
