Regarding COG’s deliberate expansion of public-sector transport
in SBC, will you please let your readers know how our COG’s
Directors attack small business owners like taxis and shuttles.
Dear Editor,
Regarding COG’s deliberate expansion of public-sector transport in SBC, will you please let your readers know how our COG’s Directors attack small business owners like taxis and shuttles.
In direct violation of the National Transportation Policy, and the directives of the past few Presidents’ OMB’s Circulars prohibiting our government to compete with business, COG’s Directors persist in running County Transit with taxpayers’ subsidies approaching 99 percent of all costs of operation. Consequently, local taxis and shuttles are deprived of their livelihoods. By running public-sector transit, which benefits only subsidy recipients and transit agencies’ employees and managers, our local leaders are telling small business owners that they don’t give a hoot about causing their insolvencies and bankruptcies. If COG Directors’ Transit First policy is extended into other businesses, what kind of America will our children inherit from us? It is high time to get our elected officials out of local small business owners’ businesses and that COG’s Directors start giving support to them, not undermining them. See my letters to former COG Chairwoman Rita Bowling for details, or my policy paper, “ISTEA Reauthorization and the National Transportation Policy,”25 Transportation Law Journal, pp, 87-et seq.(1997). Caveat Viator.
Joe Thompson, Tres Pinos
