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October 23, 2018

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Cassandra

The entire peninsula should come out and vote for Cox to stop high-speed rail.

Sally Meakin

If Joe says no, that’s how I’ll go.

Joe

And it looks like Jon Mays at the DJ agrees on Measure W being wrong-headed:

As part of this process, SamTrans spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in a public outreach campaign to gather input on what regular folks would like to see. As a result, we have a wide-ranging plan that would provide half — an estimated $40 million a year — to SamTrans, with the rest — an estimated $40 million a year — going to a variety of possible projects including highway congestion, potholes, bike lanes and more. The amount is not small potatoes, but adds a half-cent sales tax to everyone in San Mateo County for projects that largely should already be paid for out of the gas tax and even part of the $3 toll increase voters just passed. Additionally, Caltrain is moving toward asking for an eighth-cent sales tax increase as well in a future election. This surely spells voter fatigue when there has been very little evidence of improvements from the tax revenue that is already collected. Sure, the auxillary lane program was good for Highway 101, but that was years ago. And the baby bullet was also good for Caltrain, but that too was years ago.

One of the primary concerns of the respondents in SamTrans’ polling was the State Route 92/Highway 101 interchange. It doesn’t take a traffic engineer to know adding lanes to the eastbound exchange will do much to ease congestion both on Highway 101 and surface streets. And yet that improvement project was pulled from the State Transportation Improvement Program before the gas tax passed.

https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-no-on-measure-w/article_5219f670-d720-11e8-a84f-1b7809d5a2e7.html

Peter (Motorcycle Guy) Garrison

Ditto Daily Post

Joe

One section of the ballot that I always find difficult is the judges. They don't campaign, don't debate and we seldom know how they rule. So I was thrilled to get some recommendations from a trusted friend who is an attorney and did substantial research on each of them via Westlaw. Here is his take:

Carol Corrigan NO
Leondra Kruger NO
James Humes YES
Sandra Margulies NO
James Richman YES
Marla Miller NO
Peter Siggins NO
Jon Streeter Yes
Alison Tucher NO
Barbara Jones NO

3 "yes's" and 7 "no's" pretty much summarizes the state of the Bay Area bench.

Hollyroller

"Say it ain't true Joe, say it ain't true."

Joe

I'll update this post when all of the results are in, but that could take another week for the State Supe's race. Measure W is dangling by less than a percent short right now.

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