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VTA general manager asks Newsom to prioritize transit workers for vaccination

Original post made on Dec 31, 2020

An appeal to prioritize public transit workers for COVID-19 vaccinations was made Wednesday by Valley Transportation Authority General Manager and CEO Nuria Fernandez in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Posted by Wrongheaded
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 31, 2020 at 8:56 am

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"Bay City News Service" provided this article. Evidently, it just reports on a letter attributed to the VTA General Manager Nuria Fernandez. It refer to her as "he." Many VTA employees are paid lots of money - unaffected by the lack of customers. Taking a bus amid the pandemic is dumb. Buses and light rail should not be operated at all. Vaccinating drivers will be immunize passengers. The GM has a compensation package of $375,000 per year. See TransparentCalifornia.com. She has threatened to use almost all of the VTA's Measure B income for capital projects on extending BART in San Jose. How many fat cat bureaucrats at VTA have already been vaccinated? That could be a more telling news piece.


Posted by Waldo
a resident of Waverly Park
on Jan 5, 2021 at 6:13 pm

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The typically empty VTA buses and trains have got to be among the the safest of places during the pandemic.


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