Posted on 12/16/2014 7:44:24 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
While Miami-Dade residents were strike recently with new, rare fee hikes on vital east-west arteries, Gov. Rick Scott was rewarding his farming regressive supporters with $9 million to build and urge their toll-free roads.
So while down south we compensate a way, a folks adult north who minister reduction to state revenues get a giveaway ride.
Poor timing? Irony? A giggle to go with a slap to a pockets of Miami-Dade’s toll-payers?
The governor’s proclamation from Tallahassee was all those things — and came by approach of press releases finished with difference of regard from a prolonged register of who’s who in a state’s absolute Republican legislative leadership.
Twenty farming areas — mostly in Northwest Florida and also in rural Belle Glade, Pahokee, and South Bay — will accept travel alleviation supports from a state, partial of Scott’s “Rural Areas of Opportunity Program,” a substitution for building what’s left of a Old Florida landscape in a name of formulating jobs. Never mind that it’s a continue and a healthy resources — not a pavement — that captivate and keep us here.
And those $9 million — that’s usually peanuts.
There are billions some-more where those came from, betrothed a governor, who incited down many some-more billions in sovereign supports for high-speed rail use in Florida.
“This year we done an ancestral investment of over $10 billion for travel needs and DOT’s five-year devise will deposit scarcely $41 billion into a state’s travel system,” Scott said. “Investing in a roads is a tip priority since it will assistance a state continue to be a tellurian traveller and business destination.”
How caring of a governor, usually reelected by a small 64,145 votes, to be so easily resourceful with those tellurian tourists visiting Gadsden and Jackson counties. And where’s a cut?
After all, a administrator appoints 5 of a 12 proffer house members to a Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, a group that strike drivers with a new tolls. Six members are allocated by Miami-Dade commissioners; a 13th house member is a state employee, a Department of Transportation’s District Six secretary.
As many as these Scott appointees contend they’re there to offer this community, those members are politically gratified to a administrator who allocated them, as we saw during Scott’s reelection campaign, when former Miami mayor Maurice Ferre, a Scott nominee to a MDX — and a Democrat — permitted Republican Scott in an ad that ran utterly mostly in Spanish-language television.
Maybe instead of levying bigger tolls, Ferre could assistance hurl behind taxes for a bad and operative people of this village and use his poke to get us some of that state income for highway upkeep and improvements.
We positively need a subsidy.
When a high cost of travel is total with a high cost of housing and a comparably low salaries, this segment is at a tip of a many costly places to live in a United States, newly inaugurated Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava told me Friday.
“We are pushing adult prices since we’re catering to unfamiliar investors and that creates it harder for internal people,” Levine Cava said.
On Tuesday a MDX addressed a open annoy over a latest fee hikes on 836 and 112 by discounting a tolls on five-axle trucks so that they don’t brief onto city streets to equivocate a tolls. That might be a initial step in a right direction, though while a pierce helps keep trucks out of neighborhoods, it usually advantages a large trucking industry, that campaigned for that rollback.
What about other commuters, like students and low-wage earners?
“Past land use decisions distant a places we live from a places we work,” Levine Cava said. “The effect of this is that a cost of travelling puts huge aria on people of singular means — generally those who need to frequently use a fee roads. The county and MDX need to do many some-more to yield a strong open movement use for a village along those same roadways.”
Something to consider about as we expostulate along a traffic-clogged highways, hear a “p-e-e-e-p” each few miles, and know that your SunPass, like a inspired teenager, is again perfectionist to be fed.
That’s what I was thinking too, but beyond the odd phrasing and grammatical errors it’s pure leftist.
Ya think?
Very hard to enjoy, this one.
FMCDH(BITS)
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