First, a little trip down memory lane for you;
Yes, that was our former County Commissioner, Marc Boldt selling you on voting to approve a sales tax increase in the 2011 election in order for C-Tran to keep buses running. Or so we were to believe.
Voters approved that sales tax increase, fearing Granny would be left standing out in the cold on some street corner.
But oddly enough, since C-Tran so eagerly wants to enslave you to Portland’s light rail boondoggle, the plan is to actually cut bus service in order to be able to afford having light rail a very short distance into Vancouver.
C-Tran has released a draft of their proposal to fund light rail operations & maintenance, the very operations & maintenance funding you rejected in the 2012 election by “primarily by eliminating local bus routes across the Columbia River.”
On the surface, that may sound reasonable, but as TriMet has been forced to do, other routes will end up requiring cut, all so Portland can force you out of you private vehicle and C-Tran leaders, with the assistance of the likes of Tim Leavitt and Jim Moeller can shift ever increasing amounts of revenue that could and should remain in our community, to Portland.
And, without seeking any approval whatsoever from you.
Elections have consequences and you are just beginning to experience them.
