Transportation. Progressive strategies and priorities must be established. The Legislature should seek creative ways to improve traffic flow and reduce the number of accidents along Interstate 10, especially between Tucson and Phoenix, and to develop a mass transit system with funding mechanisms, including a gas-tax increase and toll roads.
Transportation is complex. We don't expect all of the transportation challenges to be solved by May, but we do expect strategies and steps to upgrade Arizona's transportation infrastructure be put into motion.
Does this actually mean Arizona's thinking of funding choo-choos and buses with higher gasoline taxes and tolls on drivers?
Transportation. Progressive [translation: leftist] strategies and priorities must be established. The Legislature should seek creative ways to improve traffic flow and reduce the number of accidents along Interstate 10, especially between Tucson and Phoenix, and to develop a mass transit system with funding mechanisms, including a gas-tax increase and toll roads.
Read it carefully. They're calling for increased gas-taxes and toll roads for the purpose of funding mass transit. It's a leftist newspaper, what would you expect?
Maybe that's one reason Texas' highways are in such bad shape. They had to spend highway money on the little choo-choo in downtown Houston.