Really?

UPDATE: as of tonight's BFT Board meeting, the proposal for an immediate cut in the sales tax appears dead, but the proposal to put the question of cutting the sales tax will return for the July BFT Board Meeting.

June is #RideTransitMonth, also known as both an awesome way to beat high gas prices and a great way to warm up for  the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge coming along later.

Apparently, the Benton Franklin Transit (BFT) board has not thought about these points. RantWoman is pretty sure at a time of skyrocketing gas prices, more people rather than fewer are going to want to use transit. Yet the BFT board wants to cut sales taxes funding current levels of service, a cut that will have horrible impact on the thousand of people in Benton and Franklin counties who are entirely transit dependent. .

This makes no sense to RantWoman since this cut would deprive BFT of state funding that is contingent on BFT providing FREE fares for youth under 18 AND maintain the current level of sales tax used along with state funding to finance local transit. RantWoman does not even buy the argument that cutting sales tax will be a good way to let consumers keep more of their money during a time of inflation. Run the buses so people don't have to drive.

RantWoman has been travelling electronically to Omaha in preparation for a live trip there. In Omaha, youth k-12 ride free! Full disclosure: RantWoman has not quite landed in the ALL transit should be free camp. but if Omaha can do free fairs for kids K-12, why not BFT?