2 min readby John Miles, Brian, Cesar and Jimmy So yesterday there was a meeting about the development of the Ronstadt Transit Center. It was billed as “Pre Proposal Conference and Site Visit.” Our understanding was that it was a public meeting for developers to ask questions of the city bureaucrats. For this reason the Bus Riders Union showed up with our 45 organized members in our yellow shirts, to great developers with banners, signs, screaming kids, bus riders in need of translation, etc., etc. After that came the site visit. Where the architects and bureaucrats were accompanied by the bus riders

3 min readby Suzanne Shafer This is an excerpt from a letter sent last week by Suzanne Shafer form the Bus Riders Union to Mayor Rothschild regarding this lame concept the bureaucrats refer to as “elasticity.” From letter to Jonathan Rothschild 02-18-2014, . . . how is the projected increase in revenue from fare increases being calculated? How much of this “hole” is it expected to fill? . . . When I asked for the origin of the elasticity model used to estimate the effects of fare changes, Sun Tran staff didn’t know the answer. But several weeks later I got the