Via Tax passes

[MannyIsGod]

I wasn't able to vote on this because I live just outside the city limits, but I was very glad to see it passed.

Mass Transit is extremely underfunded in SA, and they have done very well with what they get. This will make service even better.

Glad to see SA act progressivly in this matter.

[SpursWoman]

I voted for it. If anything it provides a percentage of the income to assist in repairing the roads they destroy.

[pooh]

I voted for it too.

[T Park]

business for the in city car dealers go down.

Guys like Brown in Devine will go uppppppp.

[MannyIsGod]

YOU FUCKING MORON.

You're so closeminded.

#1, less cars on our roads woudl be good, and better mass transit helps with that.

it saves you money on inspections, and emissions controls. Go to Houstn to get your inspection done, see if you pay the 15 bucks you do here. Fuck No.

man, forget it, you'd think i'd learn to pick my fights by now.

[scott]

You all just voted for the Stone Oak Welfare plan, congrats.

Half of the additional sales tax will now be used to make life easier for a bunch of people in an affluent neighborhood. When you consider the fact that increasing lane capacity has been empirically shown to NOT REDUCE traffic, it makes it all the more appauling.

Fuckers want less traffic, put up a toll booth.

[SpursWoman]

No, I'm still pissed about the $900 rim I had to replace because of a gigantic pothole in an area with very heavy bus traffic.

But whatever.

[CosmicCowboy]

If you guys think that any significant portion of that money will REALLY go to fix streets you are living in a fantasy world...but promising it certainly got people to vote for it...

Speaking of VIA...there has been a ban on new billboard advertising within the city for years...every single billboard you normally see was existing before the law was passed and grandfathered in on the enactment of the law...what the fuck is the deal on these billboards at the new bus stops? They don't have to comply with the law?

[CrazyOne]

I live in Live Oak, so I didn't get to vote on that either... but it was just another "promise them anything" tax plan. I am glad that VIA started reinforcing the bus stops. For example, we've got a bus stop on the corner of the church property on Nacogdoches. This year they put in a nice covered bench and then took out the asphalt in front of it and replaced it with reinforced concrete... now if we could just convince them that our front parking lot is part of the bus stop.... hmmm

[SpursWoman]

If you guys think that any significant portion of that money will REALLY go to fix streets you are living in a fantasy world...but promising it certainly got people to vote for it...




Sorry, I'm NOT living in fantasy land Oh, Great One. It was a very insignificant percentage of a very insignificant percentage of the additional tax, but a percentage nonetheless. But hey, thanks....it's always a treat to be corrected and put back in my place....'cuz I'm just a stoopid, blind, naive lil' girl, ya' no.

[CosmicCowboy]

:oops

OK darlin...i apologize.

I am sure they will patch the asphalt back into the streets in Stone Oak when they build the new turnouts for the bus stops. That qualifys as street repair I guess... :spin

Sorry, I just don't have any respect for the VIA management...after the ACCD and possibly SSISD they are the most corrupt and badly run publicly funded institution in San Antonio...

[1369]

I'm with Cosmic on this issue.

I live in Stone Oak and voted against the measure.

I have absolutely no faith that VIA can manage the new funds, nor are they intelligent enough to pour piss out of a boot.

I lost all respect for VIA after they scabbed onto the taxes for the Alamodome saying that VIA would provide all this transportation to the dome since there is no serious parking for the dome and then after they got their money, said they could no longer provide service to the dome since they were losing too much money on the routes.

[Samurai Jane]

Hmm.. I've never seen VIA fixing any streets...

Either way, I voted against it.. I don't think that giving VIA any more money would reduce traffic.. people just like to drive too much and at their own schedule.

[MannyIsGod]

some figures on via.

funded on a half cent sales tax since it's inception.

less than that of all other major cities in texas.

a LOT less.

it's still a lot less.

whatever, i'm tired of arguing.

It's a stone oak welfare package, yipee.

[scott]

The VIA portion of the bill is not the reference to the Stone Oak Welfare package. Half of the sales tax increase will be devoted to road improvements, specifically expanding roadways in and around Stone Oak. Half of this bill is a subsidy, which is ironic given the political leanings of Stone Oak residents toward handouts.

[Useruser666]

I don't ride the bus, so I don't want to pay for bus service.

[bigzak25]

if gas prices keep going up,we'll all be riding the fucking bus....i voted for it.