Austin Chronicle Endorses Prop 1

October 14, 2010 – City of Austin Proposition 1: Yes

“The issuance of $90,000,000 in tax supported general obligation bonds and notes for … roads and streets … sidewalks, bikeways, and other bicycle and pedestrian mobility infrastructure … and the levy of tax sufficient to pay for the bonds and notes.”

The “Austin Mobility Bond” is an admittedly modest step toward a truly multimodal regional transportation system that directs resources toward alternative forms of transportation in addition to basic roadways – the latter, in fact, having largely reached potential capacity within the central city. We support this interim bond measure, and we support the city’s overall attempt to redirect transportation resources in a multimodal direction; the longer we wait, the more difficult it will be and the more it will cost. Austin’s transportation political history is littered with missed opportunities; the Mobility Bond is a cost-effective, broadly based attempt to get moving again in the right direction.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1097802