in passing....

so many dishonesties.... every day.... (1)

I continue to dislike boarding the El Paso buses, being inspected by the bus-driver

as one enters the bus...

So unnecessary.

As if they are afraid that someone will ride the bus without paying...

As if the ruling class weren't robbing us of much greater sums every day.

And then there is the insult implied by the dishonest labeling: "fare adjustment"

"adjustment" Excuse me, do you think I am stupid? Do you think if you call it

by that word, somehow it will be less ugly?

You are raising the price of public transit because a small number of powerful and wealthy individuals have been gambling with other people's money--with our money.

They are robbing us and you are pretending that we have democracy.

Please stop insulting us.

And, of course, the people who you are taking money from are precisely

those who can least afford to pay more. They don't ride the bus in El Paso

Texas because they are rich. El Paso Texas is not a city like New York or

Vienna or Bratislava where public transport is fast and convenient. In El Paso,

people use the bus when they cannot afford a car... (and most people have

enormous trucks....)

All very dishonest.

The Bus Company is defective in other ways: Wasting money to print up pieces of paper (2) that make a show of democracy...

that pretend that we, the passengers, have a say, that we, the passengers, can influence the decision that has

already been made...

All dishonest and insulting.

(1) or if you prefer: So many pieces of dishonesty... or so much dishonesty....

or so many of the events of ordinary life are so fundamentally insulting and dishonest...

(2) Here I refer to the pieces of paper in every bus inviting us to a meeting to discuss the fare increase, which is misleadingly labeled as an "adjustment"....

You should "adjust" the mayor's salary or that of the city manager or that of all the managers at the El Paso bus company...

AND HERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S EVEN MORE IMPORTANT...

I hereby propose the following reform to improve life in the city of

El Paso Texas:

The mayor, and the city manager, and all employees of "Sun Metro" and all employees of UTEP (including faculty and administrators) should be required to use the bus to commute to work.

The mayor and all city employees, AND all employees of UTEP (including

Professors and administrators) should be required by law to give up their cars.

That would be civic pride.

That would require bravery.

That would be setting an example.

And, if that happened, boy would the buses get better overnight--and there might even be a real metro (fast trains) and trams and safe bike lanes..

If the buses are good enough for ordinary citizens, then they are good enough for

the mayor or any elected official, or any employee of the government or any professor

or any president of any university....

But, in the dusty dirty desperately ugly real world...

Instead they are idiotically building new freeways. --IDIOTIC and short-sighted.

They should be putting in a real metro.

NO, I do not have anything good to say about El Paso, Texas...