Winston-Salem Journal’s Scott Sexton says voters are wise to the city’s push for a $179 million trolley system:
The words “trolley” and “streetcar” appear nowhere in the stacks of information that city officials put together about $157.5 million in bonds they would like voters to approve later this year.
But that hasn’t stopped some of those voters from asking about it during a series of informational meetings on the bond proposal.
…And why wouldn’t the voters ask?
It’s a fair question, especially when you consider that seven of the eight members of the Winston-Salem City Council are all for blowing $179 million on a trolley system. That’s not exactly a fiscally responsible move, even if most of the price tag could be paid with “free” money from the federal government as some profligate council members seem to think.
City Manager Lee Garrity adds that although he’s not heard that much support for the trolley system, the City Council “will make that decision.”
Not exactly the most reassuring words for W-S taxpayers—-or taxpayers anywhere, really, since we’re talking about “free money” from the federal government.
