Increase in RTD Fares
RTD board members vote to raise the basic fare 29% to $1.10 from 85 cents at the same time they launch a campaign to give away hundreds of thousands of free bus tokens. What sense does that make?
The board has also announced plans for drastic service cuts in the very near future. What makes this so pernicious is that recently changed federal regulations allow a line to be cut up to 25% without first holding a public hearing as was required in the past.
The board members say they had no choice. But the true cause of this mess is years of bad management.
For the short-term, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley must replace their discredited appointees who voted in this intolerable increase. For the long-term, our Sacramento lawmakers must try again to abolish this incompetent bureaucracy.
JOHN WALSH
Chairman, United Riders
of Los Angeles
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