After enormous push back from San Diego County residents, several members of the San Diego Association of Governments’ (SANDAG) board of directors said Friday they would ask SANDAG staff to provide alternatives to fund the county’s regional transportation plan which do not rely on charging county residents for every mile they drive.
The four-cents-per-mile road usage tax proposal — and two half-cent regional sales taxes proposed for 2022 and 2028 — was envisioned as a way to help fund SANDAG’s long-term regional plan, an ambitious 30-year, $160 billion proposal which could include no-cost public transit and a 200-mile, $43 billion regional rail network.
Some of the most powerful members of the SANDAG board — which weighs votes by a city’s population — said they were uncomfortable with the details of such a tax.
“At this time, the local road usage charge as a replacement for the gas tax remains highly speculative, with very few details available about how it would work or be applied in a fair way,” said Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear, chair of SANDAG’s Board of Directors. “I am concerned that the road usage charge could saddle residents with large and unsustainable cost increases for their basic transportation needs before substantial improvements in public transit have made transit a viable choice for most trips.”
The transportation plan is going before the board for final approval on Dec. 10, but the late split from some of the board’s leadership leaves it unclear how the regional transportation agency will respond. According to state law, the transportation plan needs to be adopted by year’s end and must demonstrate plans to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
December 10 is fast approaching. What tax increases will stay in the plan? The last SANDAG tax increase was rejected by voters.
Some SANDAG background:
Blakespear's husband calls mileage tax plan "paranoid conspiracy bullshit"
Having no personal moral compass this is not the first time Blakespear's demonstrated that she doesn't know if she's coming or going. Look up the definition of "flip flopper" in the dictionary and you'll see her mug. Right next to Mosca's.
ReplyDeleteHow can Blakespear be wrong on so many things? It seems like everything she weight in on she has backwards logic. It seems she was born with zero common sense.
ReplyDeleteShe back a plan to spend over $80,000,000,000 on out of date fix rail throughout san diego based on road user tax for years and then pulls an about face at the one yard line.
Typical BS from someone with zero integrity and common sense.
I feel so back for her step mom's and her whipping boy Jeremy, the punching bag, BIAspear.
BOOPO!
*I feel so back for her mom's and her whipping boy - Jeremy, the punching bag, BIAspear. He sure signed up for a life of misery.
ReplyDeleteJust remember, ANYONE that believes in "man made global warming and raising seas" has no sense"
ReplyDelete8:05 You are an idiot.
Deletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opinion/climate-change-alaska.html
The N.Y Times????? Oh' paalease. Anyone that reads that leftist rag is questionable in rational thought.
DeleteAnd by the way. "man made global warming" has been a fraud for the last 30 years. One made up lie after another. Proven lies time after time.
But blakespear and her followers believe...I guess that is all the counts.
3:14 You are hopelessly and willfully ignorant. Despite overwhelming evidence worldwide, you stick to your idiotic opinion.
DeleteShe is just doing "damage control", as not to impact her upcoming State Senate run. If she gets into office, you can expect more travel taxes and every cock-eyed program to make the Middle Class shell out for her stupid ideas. Her bicycle safety implementations have cost the city millions in lawsuits and continue to do so. She'll lay out the red carpet for developers and any other special interest that'll stuff her campaign coffers. As someone noted, she is worst than $tock$ - and that is hard to accomplish!!!
ReplyDeleteDUMP BLAKESPEAR!
ReplyDeleteDump the BrandonSpear crime family!
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DeleteBlakespear will flip right back to supporting the scheme once her base is hoodwinked into thinking she actually listens and vote her into office. Too late, she'll get "new information" to make her change her mind back. Or maybe not even give that much of an excuse. Don't say you weren't warned.
ReplyDeleteNext November would be a good time to vote her out of office permanently. Let's make sure our neighbors to the North know how her policies as mayor and on SANDAG have hurt the very people she claims to represent. The federal lawsuit for housing discrimination against our city is not a good look for a Senate wannabe either.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the latest map for her race and put your efforts to use where she's actually running.
DeleteBlakespear has made potentially fatal political errors. Hopefully the electorate takes notice. She is unfit for higher office.
DeleteDump BrandonSpear crime family.
ReplyDeleteShe is the only one in history to be worse than $tock$ scum bag.
"SANDAG’s long-term regional plan, an ambitious 30-year, $160 billion proposal which could include no-cost public transit and a 200-mile, $43 billion regional rail network."
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, how's that California bullet train working out? Can I buy a ticket to nowhere yet?
Its not $43 billion its $80 Billion and that estimate is extremely low because SAMDAG continully blows its estimate and projections. Remember last fiasco from SANDAG?
ReplyDeleteThe additional costs are the O and M of the new slow speed commutor rail system.
Ancient technology to match the old rotting brains decaying down at SANDAG
Here is a great analogy of SANDAGs latest Regional Plan which is similar to the States bigger vision of completing a high speed rail - https://catalyst.independent.org/2019/06/19/californias-high-speed-rail-is-the-very-definition-of-a-boondoggle/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIttX7rbjU9AIV2CCtBh0BCQspEAAYAyAAEgLUsPD_BwE
ReplyDeleteSANDAG Plan should be named the Regional Boondoggle. You might ask, who is the Chair of the regional Boondoggle effort?
Well of course, it would have to be the Queen of boondoggles, our very own BIAspear.
She is absolutely amazing if you think about it. A human at her age with absolutely zero common sense. So get ready for the high road, vehicle registration fees, sales tax, and gas taxes that SANDAG will be approving this Friday Dec 10. After all, BIAspear knows what is best for you, and from now on you must ride a sketchy disease filled slow bus or train.
Recall Blakespear!
ReplyDelete6:55pm- Well you know BIAspear does not ride the bus or trains herself, but of course, thats a different story. She knows what is good for your and you will take buses and trains.
ReplyDeleteFlip/Flop Blakespear - she has shown her hand. Her word is worthless, as she has proven. If she gets into Federal office, she will tax and spend the middle class into oblivion. Yet she will abide in the comforts of the spoils she reaps from selling out.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: State Office
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