"And she also argues that they have an ethical duty to do it. Smith recently resigned from the board of the local transit agency — or 'transit society,' as they’re called north of the border — when it became clear she’d be forced to approve endless fare increases just to keep the buses running, even as her work on the city council made it clear that the government could just increase taxes and get rid of fares altogether."
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/16/this-city-leader-wants-drivers-to-pay-850-year-to-register-their-cars-and-give-the-money-to-transit
Anirvan Chatterjee /
npub12g…vvnl7
2024-05-22 21:01:00
Author Public Key
npub12gc59ah4j7mwwkyy5d74y9z5a8h897zk45egpq4lt6vkrh8yacxskvvnl7Published at
2024-05-22 21:01:00Event JSON
{
"id": "7b8ee87d8f1d55630b2be83b6f8599d4963f23e14a7883b9397ecf29ff7f0a3c",
"pubkey": "523142f6f597b6e75884a37d521454e9ee72f856ad328082bf5e9961dce4ee0d",
"created_at": 1716404460,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/anirvan/statuses/112486282730295663",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "\"And she also argues that they have an ethical duty to do it. Smith recently resigned from the board of the local transit agency — or 'transit society,' as they’re called north of the border — when it became clear she’d be forced to approve endless fare increases just to keep the buses running, even as her work on the city council made it clear that the government could just increase taxes and get rid of fares altogether.\"\n\nhttps://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/05/16/this-city-leader-wants-drivers-to-pay-850-year-to-register-their-cars-and-give-the-money-to-transit",
"sig": "a35c76ca4d75250a71b67be5bf226794fd77a40063d55256f501856ad59b51fd2c6d62d6fe69818212e6d55b0b366833535c5461692d690837015790abdb4932"
}