10-26-2014, 02:52 PM
(10-26-2014, 09:08 AM)clasher Wrote: So should we just have a cut-off where anything over a $100 million is put to a vote? Vote on every single expensive highway widening and everything else too if it's just about the amount of money. Where's the fully-funded, multi-stage plan for paying for the existing road repair backlog and insatiable appetite for new roads in new suburbs? Why do we need 20 years to hum and haw about building transit? It's not like robot cars are actually going to be a real thing in the next 20 years. The original LRT plan was adjusted to suit public opinion that building the whole thing at once was too expensive so it was tweaked without the need for an actual referendum. It also kind of makes sense to build the ridership in Cambridge like it was built-up in KW with express buses.
As soon as that became law you can expect that every project would just get cut up into two "separate" projects that stay under the threshold.