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SMART Asking for $10-12m to Fund Each Marin Station
SMART is asking to divert “astounding” amounts of money from genuinely cost effective and green transportation programs in Marin, in the words of Transportation Authority of Marin Executive Director Dianne Steinhauser.
Watch from the 59m 30s mark of the October 22nd Transportation Authority of Marin board meeting to see this outrage unfold:
http://marin.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_id=7785
In the video you can see even Steinhauser is shocked and astounded by this 11th hour request by SMART that should easily have been foreseeable.
In the last week SMART has revealed to the Transportation Authority of Marin (TAM) that each SMART station in Marin will need $10-12m in funding. There are 4 stations in Marin, 5 if Larkspur is included.
This request is truly preposterous and should not be honored by TAM, let alone even entertained. Voters gave SMART the money it stated it would need to build the entire line from Cloverdale to Larkspur, including stations and a greenway path for bike and pedestrians connecting all the stations and shuttles – the funding was the 1/4c sales tax.