We oppose the City of Camarillo raising costs for monthly bus passes and Dial-A-Rides on the Camarillo Area Transit (CAT) by an average of 220% without offering any sort of aid to help people afford these severe increases in price of monthly bus passes and Dial-A-Rides because:

1. Most of the Camarillo Area Transit (CAT)’s ridership is elderly and/or disabled, including decorated US military veterans, which means they both are the most reliant on public transit to go anywhere and have the least amount of financial resources with which to handle these sharp price increases.
2. Many disabled and/or elderly people, including decorated US military veterans, in Camarillo are now having to limit how much they go out into the community due to not being able to afford their prior level of public transit at the new sharply increased prices.
3. The entire reason CAT provides Dial-A-Ride services in the first place is to obey the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which mandates the existence of a service that provides public transit access to people who are unable to get themselves to a bus stop.
4. If disabled and/or elderly people cannot afford to use the service that provides public transit access to people who are unable to get themselves to a bus stop, then that completely defeats the point of having a service that provides public transit access to people who are unable to get themselves to a bus stop.
5. Public transit is inherently a government service, not any sort of business venture.