"A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars.  It's where the rich use public transportation."  The former mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro

 My letter to the editor May 30, 2023 

"Muni warns of big cuts in service" sets off alarms because as Janice Li says of BART, if it fails, everyone will pay the price--even those who don't use it.   To avoid worse traffic congestion and climate warming and to increase equity, we need to support public transit, which I've been riding since 1966--to campus as a student, to homes all over the city as a baby-sitter,  as  a mother with an infant, as a mother with a toddler going to play groups and gyms for tots...and now in my retirement, I take Muni and BART to Davies Hall, the SF Playhouse, Greens, Manny's, across the bay to family reunions and graduations...I am a grateful transit rider, often quoting these words:  "A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars.  It's where the rich use public transportation."   Rich or poor, let's use it and support it in every way we can, including urging the state and federal government to provide funds.

Sent around 1:20 pm on Tuesday, May 30, 2023

 I wish I'd said from where to where I traveled from on Muni!  Just as a student, I traveled from California and 8th Avenue in the Richmond, 2246 41st Avenue in the Sunset,  624 26th Avenue, 174 Chattanooga, and Lincoln and 9th to SFSU--different semesters, of course!