Warning of a “transit disaster,” the city managers of San Joaquin County’s eight incorporated cities are urging the Regional Transit District to reconsider plans to expand intercity service.
In a letter to RTD CEO Alex Clifford, the city managers say a proposed expansion will cost millions of additional dollars in taxpayer money at a time when ridership levels have not recovered from COVID-19 pandemic lows.
“We are dismayed to learn that RTD wants to expand its intercity transit routes and wants (not needs) even more than the millions they have received,” they wrote in the July 22 letter…