San Antonio mayor shelves plan for November transit ballot initiative

San Antonio mayor shelves plan for November transit ballot initiative
The 1/8th-cent sales tax would have provided funding to expand VIA Metropolitan Transit’s service.




San Antonio will not ask voters this November to approve a 1/8th-cent sales tax that would have provided millions to the area for transit investment.

The proceeds of the tax would have funded portions of Via Metropolitan Transit’s VIA Reimagined plan, which aims to bring a better bus system, rapid transit and advanced technology solutions to the transit network.

As Mass Transit Assistant Editor Megan Perrero reported in the April/May issue:

If approved, that one-eighth cent sales tax would fund the expansion of services associated with the VIA Reimagined Plan, as well as capital costs such as more buses for the added service.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg provided city residents with an on-air assessment of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the city on June 2:

“Our top priorities must be managing the crisis, preventing both an economic and health catastrophe, and providing opportunity for all San Antonians as we restore our livelihoods. We need all hands on-deck. As we chart this course, we must put aside previous plans that made sense before the pandemic sent shock waves through our community. ...........(more)

https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/article/21140920/san-antonio-mayor-shelves-plan-for-november-transit-ballot-initiative