To wrap up my series of interviews relating to the Metro referendum, I spoke to the person with whom Metro Chair Gilbert Garcia brokered the deal on the GMP reauthorization: County Commissioner Steve Radack. Commissioner Radack is a strong advocate of the General Mobility Program and a critic of light rail. I suspect that if you read this blog you’re quite familiar with Commissioner Radack, so we’ll just go straigh to the interview:
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thank you for your fair & loyal service mr. kuffner. i just listened to your interview with steve radack concerning the general mobility program. i will vote for it but not with 100 percent conviction. i am a skeptic and know info provided can be manipulated. but my hope is that metro will better the bus system with money not being used for rail, causing a revenue spike, which will enable metro to build light rail without tax dollars and without degrading bus service quality.
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
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