How fucked is transit in USA? Even if you go to the trouble of voting in a new tax that's dedicated to transit improvement, all it takes is one politician deciding that he'd rather spend that new revenue elsewhere:https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article216580535.html …
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Do you suppose that the oil industry and auto/trucking industries are paying off politicians? Seems likely, so nothing will change until this is exposed and stopped. Not an easy fix.
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no, there's nothing to suggest a payoff here, the money was diverted to fill a funding gap resulting from a property tax crash, and then the next guy (Gimenez) cut property taxes, ensuring that the transit money would never go to its intended purpose
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