San Mateo County residents need to be able to get to work.
Current bus service is inadequate and leaves people stranded for us to 5 hours because it doesn’t run at night. The bus ride from north to south is two hours. When the bus doesn’t start until 5 am in the north, a person can’t get to work until 7 am in the south.
Higher paying jobs are 9-5, lower paying jobs, the jobs that support us all, can be any time, day or night. These are service jobs, and many start much, much earlier. Yet, low paid workers who desperately need to work more than one job, cannot get to 2nd and 3rd jobs.
Also, people going out at night are stranded if they don’t catch the midnight bus. This encourages drunk driving.
We basically only have one street in San Mateo County for north-south transport. Can’t we cover El Camino at least every 30 minutes?
-Dana Callen
