Posted Oct 23, 2008, 8:07 PM
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"How about the long list of subsidies the entire State, including Williamson County, gives to Austin?"
You're crazy - Austin gets nothing but the back of the hand from the state - and, by the way, the state office buildings pay zero, yes, ZERO dollars in property taxes.
As for CM and Williamson County, the 2000 LRT plan served precisely as many Williamson County communities as does the 2004 commuter rail plan. The difference is that the 2004 commuter rail plan doesn't actually serve Austin. And the only city which opted out anywhere near the 2000 timeframe was Cedar Park, which actually would have gotten service with LRT. The other communities in Williamson County either never joined CM to begin with, or dropped out a long time previously.
As for your genius scheme, they're talking about maybe building a line which would only carry people TO, not through ONTO, the CM line. At which point the passengers would be riding for the same (subsidized) price as residents of Leander and (maybe) Austin, despite the fact that their city doesn't pay the subsidy.
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