[Mpls] Taxing Downtown Drivers

[Jim Bernstein]

Does a downtown drivers tax have merit in Minneapolis?  NO! 

Downtown itself is not particularly congested.  And, we want to
encourage people to come downtown and we want to encourage retailers and
other businesses to stay/expand downtown without having to penalize
their customers and employees.  Such a tax would do nothing to relieve
congestion and would likely do virtually nothing to improve air quality
downtown.  

The problem of highway congestion is metro wide.  Imposing a tax on
downtown Minneapolis drivers is not a solution to anything!

Jim Bernstein
Fulton

-----Original Message-----
From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of WLDJ36 at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:27 PM
To: mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Taxing Downtown Drivers

First it's London and now a San Francisco proposal. Does a downtown
drivers  
tax have merit in Minneapolis? Here is the link to the SF story. 
_http://sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/20050215_ne01_toll.txt_ 
(http://sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/20050215_ne01_toll.txt) 
 
Bill Dooley
Kenny - Ward 13
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