re: Good article about the BR traffic nightmares, but note what it says about the loop.

You don't need an environmental impact study if you aren't using federal dollars.I promise you, there is a way to fast track this.

But if we do it with private money, you have to be able to pay those investors back, with a profit. Something this huge is going to take a lot of damn money, either now or later.

Will end up being just another tax at the end of the day. The state spending problem will never end and this will be another way to prove it. Unless we get someone that seriously adheres to fiscal conservatism and in this state that the unicorn yall were discussing earlier.

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Yep...that’s why I will NEVER vote yes for a tax. The capital is literally crumbling down, but we continue to fund BREC and CATS, which I still never see more than a few riders on the buses. BR is like that family with a pos rundown house and pos rundown car that has $15K worth of rims and stereo equipment.

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All this.

I guarantee CATS is a net loss for the city, and it would actually be cheaper if we paid individual taxi rides for their current riders (not that the taxpayers should be paying other's bus fares anyway)