Youre paying for this problem. Bart board member Deborah Allen of Contra Costa County says her own Research Suggests the actual losses may be twice that much. Thats why today the board voted unanimously to select these new swing style gates to replace the originals. Similar to what you see at muni, but imagine that with plexiglas, something more modern looking and welcoming, seethrough, that sort of thing. The new gates will be five feet tall, making them tougher to get over and squeeze through. But making that choice was easy compared to what comes next. The very important task of finding 150 million. There are many, many riders who tell me if you would just not let people flood through the system without paying, the trains would be less crowded. We would have more revenue. There is a timeline for all this, but its not very exact. As alicia says, they have to find the 150 million. They have to do the installation at the bart stations, and then they have to wire it into their existingo
Face in their lives. Today, i thank you for this opportunity, because i would like to describe to you my agenda. How it would play out in the lives of two hypothetical people from detroit. A Small Business owner operating a auto bill operating an , and a youngop Woman Working at the front desk. As we see, the challenges we face is a result of washingtons failings. Lets call our Business Owner david. A owns a franchise of National Automotive repair company. He has 10 employees. In the past, david never considered himself a political person. He never thought his life was impacted much by what was happening in washington. Lately, his costs have been soaring. When he looked at his books, it was clear why. The cost of equipment. Outdated trade restrictions are preventing his franchise from finding products that are at a competitive price. Washington continues to tax what he invests in modernizing his equipment, despite the fact that our economy needs businesses like davids to integrate new
Guess who was on that Defense Committee that i got to work with . Barry goldwater. John tower, one of the great minds. Gary hart, democrat, one of the smartest people i ever worked with. People who had been basically given their limbs in world war ii. So it was a great experience, learning about threats and systems and spending and reform and all that. And then six years in i was able to get on the Budget Committee, which is what i always wanted to be on because i learned i havent told the story when i ran for the state senate, i said there were two things we shouldnt do. We shouldnt raise our pay because i wanted the legislature to be parttime. The second thing is i wont vote for any tax increases. So republicans win the majority and they decide to raise taxes, and raise their pay. So i turned the pay down, which i came to learn later most people thought i was nuts. The other thing is they wanted to raise taxes, and i said i am not voting for it, and they said i was irresponsible. So
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