GOP legislators want to wrest control of transportation planning from local officials, with one goal being to favor roads over mass transit.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — State lawmakers are moving to wrest control of transportation planning from local officials to instead represent their own political philosophies.Strictly speaking, debate on Senate Bill 1122 deals with whether Maricopa County voters will get a chance to extend a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects for another 20 years.
Roads vs. transit debatedA specific legislative bias favors more roads at the expense of mass transit and light rail in particular. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio But Carroll, who supports more money for mass transit — and sponsored a bill continuing funding for light rail — said while that may be true, it's also irrelevant. He said the gas prices are a reality for taxpayers.
But he said the plan was unanimously adopted after"extensive public input'' as being the best for all concerned. MAG wants lawmakers to simply give voters a chance to approve the plan it created, the voters who adopted the tax and the first 20-year plan in 1985 and its renewal in 2005, he said.
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