[anymouse]

Queen Sheila is at it again.

[anymouse]

Houston ping.

[exit82]

Why does the Queen worry about mass transit, when she drives in a limo all the time?

[anymouse]

Light Rail + Queen Sheila = $B's of wasted tax dollars.

[rustbucket]

I heard Representative Culberson on the Jon Matthews show on KSEV the other day. From what I gathered, the actual transit document we will vote on in November authorizes eventual rail extension for a much larger number of miles that the widely published reduced case that they finally cut back to. That is what I understood anyway.

Maybe the reduced case is what we are being asked to vote money for now, but slipped into this transit document is authorization to build even more miles, but the funds are not provided for those additional miles. Not now anyway. But maybe if Metro can juggle its budget and projects to free up money in the future for another light rail extension, they will argue they don't have to go back to the voters again because we authorized the extra milage back in 2003.

I may be wrong in what I understand about this. However, I want the ballot wording to reflect what will be built for how many dollars and how many future miles of extension we are authorizing in addition, if any.