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Originally Posted by subterranean
The governor is definitely behind transit and regionalism, and I'm not smacking my stamp of approval on this person wholesale by any means, but he's got the support from the legislature on basically every issue that's come to the table, so why not this? His staff know the benefits of regionalism from a business perspective. He should be pushing this regional authority as an economic development driver and working with the suburban counties to sign on. If they don't, then make it a mandate funded by raising the gas tax and carve out that increment for the authority.
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^A comment I made in October. I guess tying it to vehicle registrations is probably more politically feasible, but I still think this guy basically gets what he wants (save for the bridge), so a gas tax will probably get through, too.