Spare the Air Day - USA - Criticism Misguided
Fremont,CA,USA -The Argus, by Vice Mayor City of Pleasanton: Matt Sullivan -30 June 206: -- Your June 29 editorial criticizing the Spare the Air Day free transit rides misses the point that increased ridership on these days identifies a huge opportunity... But in an era of global warming, sprawl development and declining quality of life, these are short-term solutions at best. As someone who rides public transit to work every day, the Spare the Air Days demonstrate to me that people will use transit if it is affordable and convenient... If the subsidies to the oil and automobile industries were shifted to public transportation, we would have a system that could make a real difference in creating a sustainable future by addressing the environmental, economic and social impacts that our current transportation system imposes on us all...
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