[Sustain] Email MTC: Save Jobs & Transit Using Airport BART Funds

[Eric Brooks]

http://www.transformca.org/take-action/tell-mtc-save-jobs-and-transit-service


  Email MTC Now to Use Federal Money to Save Jobs and Transit Service!


    Tell the Metropolitian Transportation Commission to use stimulus
    money from the Oakland Airport Connector to save jobs and transit
    service!

A letter was just released by the Federal Transit Administration stating 
that $70 million in federal stimulus funds are being withheld from the 
Oakland Airport Connector project due to BART's failure to do an equity 
analysis on how the project will impact local residents.

*Now these precious dollars could be lost altogether to the Bay Area.*

*But the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission and BART can 
choose to put this $70 million towards things the 9-county Bay Area 
really needs:*

   1. *JOBS. *The $70 million can save hundreds of local jobs at public
      transit agencies that are on the chopping block due to funding
      shortfalls.
   2. *Better public transportation service. *Millions in funding could
      quickly be directed to transit operations across the Bay Area,
      stopping brutal service cuts and fare hikes.
   3. The chance* to study a faster way to get to the Oakland Airport
      and save $400 million.*

*SEND A PERSONALIZED EMAIL TO THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION 
NOW.* <http://act.transformca.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1628>

*Let's put $70 million in stimulus funds where it's needed: our regional 
transit agencies, not the Oakland Airport Connector boondoggle.  Or the 
Bay Area risks losing this money entirely! *

*COME TO THE RALLY FOR JOBS AND JUSTICE ON JANUARY 27. * 
<http://www.transformca.org/oac/your-action-needed-now>

*Why is the Oakland Airport Connector such a boondoggle?*

This $492,000,000 project a 3-mile, half-billion dollar transit fiasco. 
Service will average just 23.4 mph between the Coliseum BART Station and 
the Oakland Airport. Riders will be required to drag their luggage up 
and down more escalators and walk fartherthan they do now. Once at the 
Airport, they will get dropped into the existing parking lot and have to 
walk across multiple lanes of traffic. The $492 million price tag will 
require loans and a $6 one-way fare on top of the cost of a BART ride, 
making the trip to OAK more expensive than to SFO.
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