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The No Tax For Tracks campaign aspires to preserve the American Dream by opposing the anti-suburban polices implied by so called “Smart Growth.” By opposing so called “Smart Growth” the No Tax For Tracks campaign endeavors to preserve the higher quality of life implied by affordable housing, as well promote the higher standard of living made possible when adequate roads reduce congestion and thus improve economic growth.
Anti-rail group says it represents the people's interests (08/06/2010)“TAMPA — Moving Hillsborough Forward, a group pushing for passage of a 1-cent sales tax in November to pay for transportation improvements, bills itself as a grass roots effort.”
Defining Success: The Case against Rail Transit (03/24/2010)“Over the past four decades, American cities have spent close to $100 billion constructing rail transit systems, and many billions more operating those systems. The agencies that spend taxpayer dollars building these lines almost invariably call them successful even when they go an average of 40 percent over budget and, in many cases, carry an insignificant number of riders.”
Rail subsidy does NOT make sense (07/11/2010)“The world changed since Commissioner Hagan's Transportation Task Force took up the study 3 ½ years ago.”
Why Cities Are Broke or, There is Something Tragic About a Train… (07/08/2010)“… or a light rail system or a streetcar boondoggle that just makes people (well, pols and their civilian enablers) wet their pants”
Opposition turns out for meeting on Tampa light rail plan (06/24/2010)“to drum up support for a penny sales tax referendum have been greeted with nodding heads and smiling faces.”
10 Transit Myth Transit's effect on congestion is insignificant in most American cities. Spending dollars on transit to reduce congestion is more likely to increase because it diverts funds from activities that have a more significant effect on congestion.…
MHF Canard: Light-Rail is an “Investment” Reality: light-rail is the opposite of an investment. An investment is an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future…
MHF Canard: Light-Rail Will Expand Mobility Light-rail reduces mobility because: 1. the costs for subsidizing rail cannibalize funds that would be used for building new highways and widening streets (transportation infrastructure the people actually want to use)…
The “Light-Rail will Save Money” Myth Light-rail advocates claim that light-rail is economically more efficient than providing roads for automobiles…