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Please sign the petition to ban BART strikes


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2013 Oct 19, 9:34am   2,466 views  10 comments

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http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-bart-strikes.html

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute estimates that one day of a BART strikes cost the Bay Area economy $73 million. It also hurts our environment, wasting 800,000 gallons of gas each day of a strike and putting 16 million lbs of carbon into the air.

#environment

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1   upisdown   2013 Oct 19, 9:47am  

BobMSN says

It also hurts our environment, wasting 800,000 gallons of gas each day of a
strike and putting 16 million lbs of carbon into the air.

How, because every right winger is having a fit and burning up the www and every other form of media?

2   smaulgld   2013 Oct 19, 11:25am  

There is a left vs left battle brewing
environmentalism vs union worker rights

3   thomaswong.1986   2013 Oct 19, 11:26am  

“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” --FDR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit

Bart 2012 operations..

Annual operating revenues.....$379.10 million
Annual expenses.....................$619.10 million
Annual profits (losses)............($240.00 million)

4   smaulgld   2013 Oct 19, 11:35am  

FDR for all his socialist leanings and policies was dead set against the unionization of federal employees.I suppose they represented a threat to his power. The Fed employees are to work at his direction not for their own livings

5   thomaswong.1986   2013 Oct 19, 12:09pm  

smaulgld says

represented a threat to his power

or contrary to the purpose/mission of public service

6   Homeboy   2013 Oct 19, 3:23pm  

Ooh, an online petition - those always work.

7   evilmonkeyboy   2013 Oct 19, 3:37pm  

smaulgld says

There is a left vs left battle brewing

environmentalism vs union worker rights

That doesn't even make since? Why would environmentalism want to take away workers rights?

8   John Bailo   2013 Oct 19, 4:28pm  

I'm surprised the Bay Area doesn't have any commuter or regional rail.

Aren't they they the ones who always push those kind of solutions.

Shouldn't they have installed a San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, Downtown train by now?

9   BobMSN   2013 Oct 20, 1:57am  

Homeboy says

Ooh, an online petition - those always work.

Not sure, but suggest something better.

10   John Bailo   2013 Oct 20, 4:18am  

John Bailo says

I'm surprised the Bay Area doesn't have any commuter or regional rail.

Okay, well I guess it does, CalTrain:

http://www.caltrain.com/stations/systemmap.html

How come I never hear much about (compared to BART)?

Do many people commute by train from say Palo Alto (or reverse commute from The City to their high tech jobs south)?

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