Tuesday, April 27, 2004
VTA Put In Their Place
Pressure from north county cities is forcing VTA to reprioritize their spending plan for Measure A funds originally earmarked for CalTrain upgrades which VTA arbitrarily decided to spend on BART to San Jose instead. A cynical Silicon Valley Manufacturers Group President and CEO Carl Guardino, in an article published in today's Palo Alto Daily News, said, "Caltrain was very important to voters. Call me old fashioned, but I believe we should ask people
what they want to spend their money on."
Not willing to take VTA at their word about the change of plans for Measure A funds, the article says that "[o]thers have floated the notion of a ballot initiative to specify how Measure A revenue would be spent." What this says is that VTA has lost the confidence of the public in their ability and willingness to do the will of the voters.
