OH: TARTA Seeks Lucas County Sales Tax for Transportation Improvements

    May 22, 2018
    A revamped route map, a service mimicking ride-sharing, and even a new name are proposed in a long-range strategic plan the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority is poised to adopt, but it depends on a new Lucas County sales tax.

    Source The Blade

    A revamped route map, a service mimicking ride-sharing, and even a new name are proposed in a long-range strategic plan the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority is poised to adopt, but such changes coming to fruition largely depends on successfully creating a new Lucas County sales tax.

    Ultimately, TARTA could be the right agency to manage a local fleet of hired, autonomous vehicles that some believe will supplant private automobile ownership in the future, general manager James Gee and Francis Frey, president of the transit authority’s board of trustees, said.

    But most of what’s listed in “Move Toledo: TARTA’s Vision for the Future” relies, they said, on switching the transit authority’s local funding source from the property tax now collected in seven member communities to a half-cent sales tax charged throughout Lucas County.

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