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it is just money
Author: rich hall
Date: 08-24-2008 - 10:24

Three hundred million dollars to give 3000 riders a day a round trip ride everyday. [before cost overruns?] By their own numbers,smart provides minimal traffic reduction, and minimal "farebox recovery" [they might save money by eliminating tickets,gates, enforcement , etc. For every dollar collected from riders, something like five are collected in taxes]

If the numbers don't improve, how long would taxpayers tolerate this? There might be another government service that needs access to the funding, instead. [fire, police,libraries and parks come to mind, but i'm just guessing. Maybe sonomarin counties don't have budget problems. It is just money. rh

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  it is just money rich hall 08-24-2008 - 10:24


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