Ex-mayoral candidate David Fox lends hand to PAC fighting Mayor Barry's transit referendum
Former Nashville mayoral candidate David
Fox is lending his support to a new political action committee that has
organized to defeat Mayor Megan Barry's transit referendum proposal.
The
new group, called the NoTax4Tracks PAC, was announced Tuesday to oppose
over the coming months what its leaders call "an ill-conceived plan"
that would make Nashville's sales tax the highest in the nation while
not fixing the city's traffic congestion. Barry wants a referendum on
her transit plan put on the May 1 ballot.
....Fox, who has broken what had been more than two years of public silence on city matters... "It's just an enormous outlay of capital," Fox said. "If you look at
just the capital costs, it's eight times the size of the Music City
Center. And it's going to be more than that because this assumes federal
grant money, which the feds have indicated is not going to happen."
Fox said other cities with similar densities have been
unsuccessful in building riderships to justify light-rail projects like
the one put forward by Barry. He also said the proposal to increase
sales tax by a half cent, and later by 1 cent, would be "brutal to
the middle class and brutal to the lower-income residents.
"I
think the plan is like a tribute to urban transit plans of decades ago.
It's like something out of the 1980s to me. It's like, well, we missed
our turn 25 years ago when this was the vogue thing to be doing, and now
we're adopting a plan that's I think a backward-looking,
extraordinarily expensive change that's not going to materially improve
transportation here," Fox said. (link)
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