Stop Muni Fare Increases & Service Cutbacks

Despite the fact that we suffered a large fare increase for San Francisco buses and trains (SF Muni Railway or Muni) just over 1 year ago, we are again threatened with a fare increase from $1.25 to $1.75 with admittedly no increase in service. We need your protests now to demand that the large Financial District Corporations pay a profits tax to Muni and to oppose any fare increase. The rich, who make over $125,000 a year in San Francisco and/or reside in San Francisco, can pay a city income tax of 1% to help our city survive and the profitable large Financial District corporations can pay a profit tax to do the same. All public transit systems are mostly subsidized with our tax dollars, not fares, and a loud clear demand must be made to the federal legislators from San Francisco to obtain more federal funds for our public transportation system, without which San Francisco cannot exist.
See also:
(1) the MTA website at:
http://www.sfmuni.com/cms/brd/mta/mtaindx.htm
and
(2) Excellent article on the crisis a the 12/8/04 beyondchron.org website at:
http://www.beyondchron.org/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=110&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1204&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=