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willechols's comments
Posted Fri, Aug 7, 6:31 p.m.
John- If you want to write about the median income of a 4-person family, then you should have written that $67,200 is 80% of area median income for a family of four. You did not. As you well know, the eligibility for public housing is based upon a.)household income and ...
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 7, 12:08 p.m.
There are a few major factual inaccuracies in this article, in addition to some remarkably tendentious statements. Sticking to the facts, the following are blatantly untrue: 1.)$65,000 is not 80% of the area median income for individuals (I assume that's what you mean by "folks"). It is close to 80% ...
MOREPosted Mon, May 26, 5:15 a.m.
ULI Report: My understanding is that the ULI report discussed in the article you linked to deals with transportation infrastructure in a general sense, including transit. I haven't read the report, so perhaps I'm getting the wrong impression from the PI article.
MOREPosted Mon, May 26, 5:12 a.m.
RE: reducing traffic congestion: As far as the "it's not BART" claim, that bears some looking into. ST1 will certainly not reach BART's ridership levels, which are around 320,000 boardings per day. However, the more complete system envisioned by ST2 or whatever new attempt is made would actually be quite ...
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