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It's time taxpayers assert themselves. APS, County Commission and City Council are raising our taxes every couple of months, without any pressure from us that they be efficient and productive with what we're already paying. It's death by a thousand cuts. I've already made up my mind. This streetcar thing is pure boondoggle. It is not a mass transit plan. It's not the beginning of a mass transit plan. It's a $300 million carnival ride. Vote "No."
Wow, something I agree with Mr. Burgos about, amazing. I wouldn't put it past the mayor naming this streetcar after himself. I'm all for public transportation, but a street car?for at least $300 million dollars? No thank you. I wish they would seperate this streetcar funding from the funding for the entitre transportation department. I'd vote for the roads as long as the streetcar wasn't part of it. And not to mention the arena being built, and who knows how much that will cost. I'd say vte no to this streetcar, and is your a democrat, don't vote for Chavez in the gov primary, or any other election for that matter!(BTW I am a progressive democrat)
Streetcars; or 89,000 of our sons and daughters?
If there is time enough to get a street car on the February ballot; there is time enough to put an alternative on the ballot. Instead of buying a trolley car, we will invest in our children.
The stewards of our money will be men and women who are willing to be held honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. Corruption and incompetence will not claim a dime.
The upside is a real opportunity to enable our children to grow up healthy and decent people; young adults with a skill set, and enthusiasm and character.
Martin Chavez would rather a legacy of shiny trolley cars than a legacy of a generation of our children that had a healthy place to be all day.
It's too bad that the streetcar project is lumped into this initiative, because it's going to cause the transportation tax to fail with the voters.
With much-needed road projects like the Paseo and I-25 intersection put of for several years due to lack of funding, I cannot fathom how our mayor wants to spend all of this money on something that does not pass the sanity test, and completely ignore the WAY more important things that this money would go a long way towards fixing.
Aside from the boondoggle nature of the proposed streetcar line, haven't any of the folks at City Hall considered what such an idotic idea would do to the traffic on Central? I don't like to cast aspersions on Albuquerque drivers - they aren't any worse than what I've seen in other cities, overall; but I just don't think there's enough room on Central for a trolley line. Here's an idea: lowrider busses. Bring back legal cruising, but require cruisers to drive only tricked-out lowrider 15-passenger vans. They'll be going slow enough that you can jump on and off while moving, just like in San Francisco, and you'll be restoring a significant part of Albuquerque culture that ought to be good for tourist draw.
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