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How much will that cost? Measure B will help a bit, but brings our sales tax to 9%. Property tax is limited by prop 13. Should developers kick in more? Is 10

• melling 10y ago
  It's going to cost a lot more than 50 years ago when it should have done. Stupidity has a price. Of course, the problem could just be ignored for another 50. Maybe people will simply leave LA.
• scharfstevenm 10y ago
  Measure B is mainly roads, with little for transit. Does anyone trust VTA to manage mass transit development? Funds for transit should come from fuel taxes, vehicle license fees, and development fees. Sales tax increases are very regressive and a terrible way to pay for transit. But that's always what the Silicon Valley Non-Leadership Group favors because it avoids their members having to ante up for the transportation problems they create. Glad the NYT article author at least quoted me correctly. He was going to characterize me as "anti-growth," which is completely false. Growth is just fine as long as it's sustainable growth with transportation, housing, and school impact taken into consideration. But developers don't want to take a systems view and look at the long-term impact of their projects.