Rate	Price	Duration
1 Year	$99.00	for 365 days
1 Month	$20.00	for 30 days
1 Week	$8.25	for 7 days

Rate	Price	Duration
1 Year	$60.00	for 365 days
1 Month	$12.00	for 30 days
1 Week	$5.00	for 7 days

Support transit with new tax

Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025
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Editor,

I recently went from my home in San Mateo to San Francisco State University — SamTrans, to Caltrain, to BART to Muni. My round-trip fare was $20.40 because Caltrain and SamTrans don’t have free or even reduced-cost transfers to the other two agencies (kudos to BART and Muni, however, for the smooth transfer with no additional fare).

(2) comments

Terence Y Sep 3, 2025 8:57am

Thanks for your letter, Ms. Westfold, however, how much time did it take you to go from your home in San Mateo to SF State University? A bit over $20 for total fare isn’t bad but how much did it cost taxpayers? Especially when mass transit is operating at 100% capacity to cater to 50% or less demand. Let’s see public transportation unions practice some fiscal management before we give them more money to pass onto transit union workers. Vote NO on any measures supporting transit (and education, for that matter) because all you’re doing is contributing to ever-increasing union salaries, pensions, and benefits.

joebob91 Sep 6, 2025 8:41am

You keep suggesting that transit is offering more robust service than necessary and financially prudent. What do you recommend? If they cut service by 50%, as you seem to be suggesting, how much would cost fall and how would that compare to the resulting loss of revenue? How much would that add to congestion on our roads when transit services no longer meet peoples' needs - e.g., train service once an hour instead of every thirty minutes.

Should we also narrow the roads? Most of the time they don't seem to be full, yet we need to spend taxpayer money repaving the roads and cleaning up the crashes (that seldom happen on transit).

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