Regarding the Council of Government’s deliberate expansion of
public-sector transport in San Benito County, will you please let
your readers know how our COG Directors attack local small business
owners like taxis and shuttles?
Editor,
Regarding the Council of Government’s deliberate expansion of public-sector transport in San Benito County, will you please let your readers know how our COG Directors attack local 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’s 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 the COG’s directors start giving support to them, not undermining them. Caveat viator.
Joseph P. Thompson, Tres Pinos
