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Briefly free of charge transit
could deliver again riders

We have all read the content outlining how public transit has collapsed due to absence of curiosity and a work-from-house actuality (“Empty trains. Deserted stations. Will riders at any time return?” Web page A1, Feb. 20).

Here’s what I suggest: Let us make all general public transit – VTA, CalTrain, BART, buses, etc. – free of charge for two many years. I bet ridership will go back again to pre-COVID concentrations. It may possibly even exceed these amounts. What would it value us? My guess is it’s really worth the investment decision.

David E. Cohen
San Jose

Getting resourceful could
support the homeless

Concerning the entrance-web page tale “Office building to be homeless housing site” (Feb. 22), I imagine this is a excellent thought. Of course, there are challenges with every single idea, but we really should hold experimenting and changing immediately.

An additional plan is to change multistory parking garages into RV parking services for those who are dwelling in RVs on the streets. The parking region can be current with moveable toilets, showers, laundry and other solutions that enable the RV population remain in their houses. You can incorporate typical area upkeep, have folks come to the web-site for health care companies, a cellular library, etc.

There must be an firm having suggestions from the community.

Hina Patel
San Jose

Decarbonization critical to
blunting Putin’s financial state

The primary Russian export is oil and gasoline, profits of which stream into the pockets of oligarchs and fund their armed service. Containing Russian aggression usually means limiting the financial gain they receive by extracting and selling these commodities. There are phone calls for sanctions, and the United States and European Union could simply just refuse to do enterprise with them, but oil is fungible, so the outcome will be like a dance in which all people swaps companions, with constrained fiscal impression on the Russian financial system.

If we pick out decarbonization as an alternative, Russia will be trapped watching the bash. The resources to do this exist right now: Solar, wind and storage can considerably decarbonize electric powered generation in a expense-effective way. Warmth pumps permit household heating to be electrified economically. And new industrial procedures get rid of the want for fossil fuels in sectors such as steelmaking.

Our elected officers need to act now. Freedom from fossil fuels is civil defense.

David Sacerdote
Palo Alto

Inhumane animal
screening will have to end

I was sickened to read through about the inhumane procedure of monkeys applied as study animals in Elon Musk’s Neuralink organization (“Group: Animals abused in Musk’s Neuralink labs,” Web site A1, Feb. 21).

The PCRM (Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine) found that Neruralink and other firms were being guilty of “chronic mismanagement of standard animal-welfare specifications.” No animal need to be subjected to severe actual physical or psychological suffering and distress, particularly when alternative investigation approaches are readily available.

All animals deserve a everyday living cost-free from agony and exploitation. All everyday living is important. Neuralinks really should use other noninvasive research approaches.

Kathleen Moe
San Jose

Olympics exhibited
sports’ most effective traits

Not all athletes who competed in the Beijing Winter season Olympics medaled, but the natural beauty of the games is participation. In IOC president Thomas Bach’s words, the mission of the Online games was to “unite humankind in all our variety.”

The athletes shown lots of attributes and achievements I have lengthy admired – their athletic qualities at the best level and their fixed unwillingness to permit anything stand in the way of pursuing their goals, gain or shed.

Yiwen Guo
San Jose

Gaps in column’s
appear at financial state

In “Mr. Biden, tout your sturdy financial system, it will not promote itself” (Site A6, Feb.22), Paul Krugman writes that Biden must acknowledge inflation, soon after which he repeats Biden’s politic that inflation is temporary.