Why former BART director Sherman Lewis urges you to vote No on B
I was elected to the BART board and served as a Director for 4 years. Measure B would harm public transit in Santa Clara County.
Getting a train to Fremont is a good idea, but the VTA way is a real boondoggle. On top of that, VTA, under the political influence of SVLG, made all kinds of promises to the voters in 2000 which it has not kept. The same crowd still wants cost-ineffective service at the expense of transit that would work.
Sales taxes are unfair to middle and lower income taxpayers and are bad fiscal policy for transit. They definitely should not be used to subsidize more than $2 billion to build and operate BART. A “no” vote sends a message to VTA: keep your promises and don’t hide the facts.
—Sherman Lewis, former BART Director; professor emeritus, Cal State Hayward
Why former BART director Roy Nakadegawa urges you to vote No on B
[...] sales tax increase to pay for operation of the BART-to-San Jose extension. Spending any money on this boondoggle that will harm local public transit is foolish. I’ve heard some Measure B proponents hint that if [...]