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livingdebDear Mr. Julitz:
According to today's Daily Texan (UT Austin's student newspaper), you said that the reason voters may have turned down Proposition 1 [for a new rail line] is that we may not have been able to have seen the whole picture. I'm writing to tell you that this was not the case for me. I saw the map showing proposed later phases and I saw it via several sources.
I'm also writing to tell you the reason I voted against this proposition. It's that the route was chosen to be useful for people who might live near the line in the future. That should not be the purpose of a so-called first phase (which I thought was the Red Line) or any early phase. Early rail lines should serve the current population. When one is proposed to serve a potential future population, that tells me that it's really for developers. And that tells me that the plan is corrupt.
I'm willing to pay a lot of tax dollars to create a decent mass transportation system in the Austin area. I am not willing to pay a lot of tax dollars to fill the bank vaults of developers and the people they bribe. And no amount of 'splaining to me how eventually it might help me too would change my mind on this issue.
Please create your next plan for the people who already live here. We are the ones who are voting.
Sincerely,
Deborah J. Miller
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Yes, I did actually send this (to a Capitol Metro/Project Connect spokesperson). It felt good.
According to today's Daily Texan (UT Austin's student newspaper), you said that the reason voters may have turned down Proposition 1 [for a new rail line] is that we may not have been able to have seen the whole picture. I'm writing to tell you that this was not the case for me. I saw the map showing proposed later phases and I saw it via several sources.
I'm also writing to tell you the reason I voted against this proposition. It's that the route was chosen to be useful for people who might live near the line in the future. That should not be the purpose of a so-called first phase (which I thought was the Red Line) or any early phase. Early rail lines should serve the current population. When one is proposed to serve a potential future population, that tells me that it's really for developers. And that tells me that the plan is corrupt.
I'm willing to pay a lot of tax dollars to create a decent mass transportation system in the Austin area. I am not willing to pay a lot of tax dollars to fill the bank vaults of developers and the people they bribe. And no amount of 'splaining to me how eventually it might help me too would change my mind on this issue.
Please create your next plan for the people who already live here. We are the ones who are voting.
Sincerely,
Deborah J. Miller
**
Yes, I did actually send this (to a Capitol Metro/Project Connect spokesperson). It felt good.
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Nice!
on 2014-11-06 08:06 pm (UTC)Re: Nice!
on 2014-11-06 11:35 pm (UTC)-Sally