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To: Ben Ficklin; narby
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Transportation. Progressive strategies and priorities must be established. The Legislature should seek creative ways to improve traffic flow and reduce the number of accidents along Interstate 10, especially between Tucson and Phoenix, and to develop a mass transit system with funding mechanisms, including a gas-tax increase and toll roads.

Transportation is complex. We don't expect all of the transportation challenges to be solved by May, but we do expect strategies and steps to upgrade Arizona's transportation infrastructure be put into motion.

Does this actually mean Arizona's thinking of funding choo-choos and buses with higher gasoline taxes and tolls on drivers?

16 posted on 01/08/2007 9:21:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Arizona is planning on a multi-modal corridor between Phoenix and Tuscon. That way, the new high speed passenger rail can run next to the new toll road.
17 posted on 01/08/2007 10:06:04 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Does this actually mean Arizona's thinking of funding choo-choos and buses with higher gasoline taxes

If they are anything like Pennsylvania, they collect taxes and tolls for the "transportation" fund, but prefer to use it for inner city buses, mass transit in the biggest city in the state, and bike / hike trails in the rest of the state...

27 posted on 01/08/2007 3:49:19 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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