Renewal tax - USA - Protects regional transit from imploding
SMART needs millage to keep buses rollingDetroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News -21 Apr 2006: -- The millage for the SMART bus system expires this year and it's not too soon for local officials to get behind promoting renewal of the tax. Wayne County takes up the issue Monday to decide whether to put the matter on the ballot. If any county needs mass transit, it's Wayne... The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation could be the core of a broader mass transit system. Letting the system wither would not make economic sense... Wayne County should follow Oakland and Macomb counties in putting the SMART millage on the ballot. Then officials from all three counties should get behind passing the measure for the Aug. 8 primary. Under the renewal, a typical homeowner would pay about $60 a year... For that money, crippling SMART would be shortsighted... (Photo: Robin Buckson / The Detroit News - SMART wants communities to renew its 0.59-mill property tax for four years. It finances about half the suburban bus system's budget)
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