The board chairman of San Joaquin County’s public transit agency is firing back against allegations that RTD’s operations are wasteful and inefficient.
Lathrop City Manager Stephen Salvatore, who has led a move by administrators in all of the county’s eight cities to rein in the San Joaquin Regional Transit District, has mischaracterized data and engaged in “juvenile sniping” with “uncontrolled antics,” said Gary Giovanetti, the transit agency’s chairman.
“We can no longer stand back and allow these unprovoked accusations and immature/childish emotionally charged hyperbole to continue,” Giovanetti wrote in a letter to the Lathrop City Council…