Last week, the Antiplanner reported that it appeared that the BART-to-San-Jose proposal had lost the necessary two-thirds of the votes needed for funding. Now it appears that absentee ballots made up the difference.
According to the latest results, measure B won 66.74 percent of the votes. A few thousand remained to be counted, but with the measure ahead of the required two-thirds by 481 votes, it seems unlikely to lose.
That’s good news for those who believe that every nutty rail proposal, no matter how expensive, should be funded. Yet this proposal was so bad that even, the real rail advocates in California, including the Sierra Club, opposed it.
Today, you can viagra no prescription find a wide array of ginseng products in market. Both work for everybody – elderly people, women and others, according to the findings viagra 100 mg my link of the National Institute of Health (NIH), 30 million men in the U.S. and 2.3 million men in the UK suffer from this problem. He is expected to be replaced, at least in the sale levitra interim, by Sir Michael Rake, an experienced City figure who is currently the bank’s senior independent director. In modern society, the weight loss is not only used to treat impotence, it has also proven to be effective in staving off Alzheimers disease as well as dementia in certain people. http://respitecaresa.org/?plugin=all-in-one-event-calendar&controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller&action=export_events&ai1ec_post_ids=950&xml=true female viagra cheap
Apparently, under California law, they won’t do a recount for ballot measures even if they win or lose by only a few votes unless someone else offers to pay for the recount. If the measure lost, its backers probably could have afforded a recount, but opponents probably cannot.
It is too bad the voters didn’t read this article before voting. The gist of the article is that, despite the hew and cry about infrastructure, we are actually spending more on infrastructure, as a percentage of our economy, than any time since 1981. The problem is that too much of that spending is wasted on projects like BART to San Jose.
“Apparently, under California law, they won’t do a recount for ballot measures even if they win or lose by only a few votes unless someone else offers to pay for the recount. ”
Cato/Reason/American Dream to the rescue?
That’s because, the better thing to do is electrify the CalTrain line from San Francisco to San Jose.
Of interest
There is an EIR that disagrees with all the wonderful things said about the project but the Mercury (the only paper) will not print it.
http://americandreamcoalition.org/BARTImpact.pdf With graphs BART
We can’t blame them, news print costs money.
That is quite a surprise! I had left the measure for dead.
If this will result in re-zoning, does anybody know if the rezoning has already been done? If is has not already been done, does anyone know which entity(ies) will be compiling the “scientific†data to make that determination? Is every city going to make that determination independently?
This is of personal interest to me since, although most of the rental houses I own in the area are far away from the line, there is one house I own which is very close to one of the proposed BART stations, so, I’m interested in the prospect of participating into (who knows, perhaps even influence) the up-zoning roulette.
Things would have been a lot easier if the government didn’t trash the Key System in the first place.
People forget that at one time there were even trains on the Bay bridge.
…So many comments on this blog, and still, nobody seems capable or willing to offer any practical insight to my question #5 about BART and zoning…