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Some beneficiaries of traffic congestion bond say its `pay to play'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ In a state where commuters suffer some of the worst highway gridlock in the country, a measure that spoons cash into transportation sounds easier to sell than free ice cream.
Called the Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Buses Act, Proposition 51 would divert $1 billion a year from California sales taxes on cars and trucks to fund 45 specific projects and 17 new transportation-related programs.
It is the boldest statewide attempt at ballot-box budgeting since Prop. 98, which guaranteed money for education.
But many of Prop. 51's intended recipients object.
Transportation agencies oppose it, saying it bypasses local public involvement and pits transportation against critical state services such as health care, prisons and parks, which rely on the general fund.
They, as well as legislators and local elected officials, call its multiple-fund structure a bureaucratic tangle that ties lawmakers' hands during rough economic times.
They accuse its authors of using play-to-pay tactics with a taxpayer-funded pet project list designed to attract campaign donations while doing little to improve transportation. They point to projects such as $40 million for a music concourse in Golden Gate Park, $10 million for an arts charter school in Oakland and $7 million for a railroad technology museum in Sacramento. Each of these ...
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