{"id":474184,"date":"2026-09-24T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474184\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:00:08","slug":"should-sales-tax-be-raised-to-avoid-loss-of-mts-bus-routes-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474184\/","title":{"rendered":"Should sales tax be raised to avoid loss of MTS bus routes? \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cDeficits might wipe out a third of MTS bus routes\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/09\/17\/budget-deficits-could-wipe-out-one-third-of-bus-routes-force-other-deep-cuts-to-san-diego-transit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 18<\/a>): As if things aren\u2019t bad enough.\u00a0Developers are getting approvals to build apartment complexes with little or no parking from here to Temecula. Everyone is supposed to take public transportation. Now this!<\/p>\n<p>We had better pray for a state bailout or bite the bullet and approve a sales tax increase. This situation must be addressed!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maggie Conway, Sorrento Mesa<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of MTS\u2019 subliminal proposal to reduce bus and trolley service is quickly unveiled by a following paragraph offering a solution by approving a sales tax increase in 2028. This ignores the evidence that public transportation patronage is increasing. It also ignores the strategies to promote housing infill where there is frequent transit service. These reductions would disqualify many of the areas approved for higher densities and would default on prior approvals.<\/p>\n<p>It is a basic premise that public transit is not designed to create revenue and must be subsidized. MTS and city leaders are playing games in a very obvious effort to cover up the economic impact of ongoing mismanagement of their properties and services. Now they are wasting time and money to concoct fantasies aimed at scaring the public into forgiving their incompetence with more taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harvey Levine, Rancho Bernardo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cDeficits might wipe out a third of MTS bus routes\u201d (Sept. 18): As if things aren\u2019t bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-474184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}