San Antonio has a City-Manager style of government, Mayor Julian Castro is basically a PR guy for the city. His current ballot plan is to raise city sales taxes to the maximum level allowed by law to layer in new spending programs. He was able to divert a couple hundred million dollars from the Via Transit Authority slated for road repair to a proposed half mile electric train that nobody wants. So now the county commisioners are changing the method of selecting Via Transit board members from being appointed to being elected. If he was the mayor of a state with a democratic governor with a ballooning deficit he wouldn’t be noticed, but by him being able to ride on Rick Perry’s coat-tails and the Eagle-Ford Shale boom, he has the illusion of a mayor who a led a prosperous city.
Castro is a little punk that leads a bunch of mental midgets and political pygmys that stumble from useless issue to useless issue while the streets crumble.
VIA transit is the biggest waste of money there is, and they just keep sinking bigger money into it for bigger buses that they can drive around empty. Thye have the entire Medical Center tore up to build bigger bus stops, a major intersection upheaval to facilitiate a direct route and acentral terminal.
All so they can drive empty buses around.