The Idaho Statesman reports on possible ways to finance a streetcar in Boise:
“Bieter said as much as 50 percent of the estimated $40 million to $50 million price tag could come from a local improvement district – a special taxing district approved and paid for by landowners within a specific boundary.
The city would not go through Valley Regional Transit to implement or operate the streetcar, Bieter said. That means no federal funding, though, because any federal transportation dollars must go through that group or Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho, the federally designated metropolitan transportation planning organization for the Treasure Valley.”
We have something like 137 days left of Bush, but the evil he did will live after him. It may be that the best approach is to build our own transit, and demand that the Federal budget actually be reduced so we don’t need to send all our money to Washington DC.
Either that, or use some of those aircraft carriers we bought as ferries.
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