Electric rail crayoning bill ✅
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The way Saint-Étienne modernized it's tram in the 1970s-2000s is a great lesson for cities like Toronto, Boston, Philly, San Francisco etc.
It's all there: circulation planning, new dedicated RoW, priority route with systematic descoping of lateral streets (RI-RO) etc.
Coming up on Wednesday.
Listen to Robert Raburn and then talk to me about the Geary Subway as an automated light metro.
Glazer argues that BART should have cut its service schedule prior to going to voters - ignoring that many of BART's costs are fixed and not variable.
Then he says he's a transit cheerleader.
The dynamics between ULA and the current Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are a lot like Prop 13 in 1978.
Local govt is unable to fix the issue, Legislators from outside of LA don't feel responsible and expect someone else to fix it.
California is sleep walking into a new fiscal crisis.
Steve Glazer (Orinda) is the face of opposition to Connect Bay Area in the media. His opinions about transit are incoherent.
He wants flat fares for BART so trips to/from Antioch are cheaper, but he also wants BART to cut spending and opposes the regional measure.
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(Misspelling Pittsburg with a H is killing me)
Even if your community doesn't have a graduated transfer tax, the HJTPA ballot measure will retroactively nullify all parcel tax measures - for K-12, infrastructure and other services - passed with a 50 + 1 majority-only since 2017.
It really is time for the Legislature to act.
Glazer: instead of a regional tax, the State of CA should pick up the bill for operating taxes... But also the State Budget is cyclical (due to Prop 13 which Glazer supports) so maybe not. Instead BART should cut service and if people get mad they can then tax themselves at a later date.