Wolff on transit for multiple centers

Calls for full sales tax share

David Crossley, Dec 07, 09.

“Metro is inheriting a city that grew up along a network of freeways, and trying to build a transit system to adjust to the multiple activity centers we have,” says METRO chairman David Wolff in a Houston Chronicle interview by Carolyn Feibel. He notes that “This is a lot more difficult than in an older — say, for example, Eastern — city that had developed along transit corridors.”

Wolff also says “No other transit authority in the country has its sales tax diverted (by one quarter) to build roads, and this is something I believe should never have happened.” He believes METRO should “have restored to it the funding that the taxpayers originally voted in 1978, which is the full one-cent sales tax.”

The full interview