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- From: "eegenebradley" <http://profiles.yahoo.com/eegenebradley>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:18:46 -0000
http://www.greencaltrain.com/
The future of Caltrain is in your hands. Thanks to you the riders, Caltrain is running the Baby Bullet on the weekends, but without further funding, there may be no weekend trains at all. We can work together to find solutions to ensure the future viability of Caltrain.
Caltrain generates among Bay Area public transitâ??s highest fare revenue per dollar of operating cost. Caltrain operations are 2x more self-sustaining than MUNI, 3x more self-sustaining than SamTrans, and 4x more self-sustaining than VTA. Despite this exemplary financial performance, Caltrain faces a severe fiscal crisis! Unlike every other transit agency, Caltrain has no dedicated source of funding to cover the remainder of its operating costs. What it managed to scrounge together in past years is no longer available, blowing a $30 million hole in a $100 million budget.
As residents, commuters and taxpayers, we must speak up and support solutions leading to Caltrainâ??s survival and long term viability and modernization. We will need operating funding help, with or without high-speed rail.
You are invited to participate in a Summit to Save Caltrain
Location: SamTrans Auditorium,
1250 San Carlos Avenue, San Carlos (near Caltrain)
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 Time: 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.
Register for the event online:
http://bit.ly/g2qGUW
Eugene Bradley
Founder, Silicon Valley Transit Users
http://www.svtransitusers.org/
Yahoo!/AOL IM: eegenebradley
phone (408)888-2208
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