Second, try, even in a small way, to build solidarity and comraderie around an issue that hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans come together on every day. That said, the organizing won't be done on Sep 1. It will just be beginning.
Third, noone wants to do the job of MUNI's bureaucrats for them. Riders won't pay, but the key also is that drivers won't collect, yet the buses will be running, people can get to work, etc. MUNI and the city need to figure out longer-term funding for the transit system. The place to start is downtown...
Fourth, "yesteryear era protesters?" Nice one.
-Ian
On 8/17/05, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> I think it is yet another half-baked idea of the yesteryear era protestors.
> Fare strikes affect only the budget of mass transit agencies, which are
> already low on the political totem pole, and will likely to result in
> further reductions of these valuable services. The automobile-highway
> construction complex - by far the major beneficiary of this country's
> transportation policies - will not be affected, and laughing all the way to
> the bank.