Pirates of the Bay Area…Secrets of Treasure Island
On Wednesday morning at 10 am in Oakland, Steve Heminger, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, will try once more, as he did back in July, to play a shell game with tax payer money.
He will recommend to the Bay Area Toll Authority that they loan bridge toll money to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to build an electrical cable to Treasure Island, even though the City’s current utility provider has agreed to underwrite the cost of construction and operation of the cable, using private money.
To be sure we all have this straight…
Voters approved a hike in bridge tolls, in order to accomplish seismic retrofits to the Bay Bridge.
Steve Heminger wants to take that money and use it for a purpose unrelated to transportation… that can be paid for with private money…in a manner that voters would not approve if it were brought to a referendum.