Dear Editor, Today a young man was killed! It’s a rainy Tuesday
afternoon, April 4, 2006. Today a young man was killed!
Grieving Father Pours Out His Heart on Anniversary of Son’s Tragic Death
Dear Editor,
Today a young man was killed!
It’s a rainy Tuesday afternoon, April 4, 2006.
Today a young man was killed!
His death was tragic in so many ways; he had just gotten his Class A commercial license, and started his career with Cal-Trans (a job he dearly loved).
Today a young man was killed!
He had a fiancee who loved him, his mom and dad loved him, and dozens (perhaps a 100 or more) of his friends and fellow workers from the City of Gilroy and Cal-Trans who loved him or just wanted his company.
Today a young man was killed!
Five to six months before his tragic death, he had accomplished the goals he needed to marry his fiancee, get a home of their own, and start their family.
Today a young man was killed!
Every accomplishment, everything he ever had, and everything he was going to have been was taken away.
Today a young man was killed!
No, he didn’t die in defense of his country, or from a terminal illness, or senseless drive-by shooting.
He died because of another person’s gross negligence and inept, irresponsible driving.
Today a young man was killed!
“HIS NAME WAS SEAN”
Craig L. Merriman, a grieving father, Gilroy
Public Transit a Colossal Failure That Cannot Work – Why Do We Keep Trying?
Dear Editor,
The failed experiment we call public transit cannot be fixed. Band-aids, “tweaking'” “adjusting'” hocus-pocus, ipso facto mumbo jumbo (a legal phrase), will get us to the same place, after much more blood-letting from taxpayers’ diminishing veins and arteries.
Tweaking the Articles of Confederation, slavery, the gold standard, prohibition worked about as well as the Pope’s Bull Against the Comet, as Lincoln so artfully noted.
Our leaders’ tweaks on the dead animal of public transit will be just as ineffective.
How long do we keep pumping blood into a dying animal suffering a fatal poison (in this case socialism/communism)?
Why did Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries de-nationalize their transport industries in the last three decades (not to mention the Soviet Bloc)?
As we overthrew the Articles, slavery, gold standard, and prohibition, so, too, must we de-nationalize (privatize) transit, as recommended by the ad hoc committee on Valley Transportation Authority Reform, which was chaired by Hon. Jim Cunneen when he was CEO of Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce (and I think he now works for Cisco). Your readers deserve the truth.
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
