[Transit] Question re: RTO and ridership

[Peter Campbell]

Rookie question to the group:

There was a report on KUOW this morning spinning Amazon's RTO as a boon to
County Metro. Honestly it sounded like a well-planted Amazon press release.

What's our response to this? Do we experience tension vis-a-vis our support
for Amazon employee organizing and the impact of RTO on transit ridership?

I'm assuming Amazon's suggestion that their RTO policies are the savior of
transit's ridership problem is bullshit—also given Senator Nguyen's point
about how ineffective fares are as a source of revenue. I could see Amazon
planting stories like this while also talking to policymakers about cutting
transit funding if ridership doesn't increase. But I don't know!

Finally is Nguyen my state senator? I live in West Seattle just below the
junction on Avalon. From the 20-minute interaction he seemed pretty good?
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