Residents want developers to pay for roads

Posted Apr 24, 2008 @ 6:35 pm, Viewed by 179 Visitors, Read 181 Times.

Infosearch International conducted a phone survey of 700 residents and about 80% feel traffic and congestion have increased over the last couple of years in the Reno area. The majority of this traffic is at the spaghetti bowl, 395 and Pyramid Highway. With a 5.2 billion dollar shortfall over the next 30 years, over 60% of the respondents would vote for increased registration fees for developers and an increase in sales tax. Gee, I wonder if they would pass that fee along to the consumers when they buy houses.

I agree with the developers having to shoulder some of this burden, but what about those big buildings with all the lights that make money from that big vice called gambling?  I’m sure they would like nice roads for their customers to drive on so that they can put money into their machines.
 
I do think these increased fees would affect the Reno Real estate market. The RTC says there will also be a 1 billion dollar shortfall for mass transit in the Reno area over that same period. With gas prices not going down any time soon, this would be a good time to revisit potential plans for a high speed monorail system to the north and south. In 2002 the Reno Monorail Group was formed, but since then the RTC has opted for more buses, road lanes and car pool lanes. I’m sure in 2002 they didn’t know we would have 4 dollars per gallon gas.

David Hughes

 

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