{"id":2973,"date":"2019-06-07T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:45:43","slug":"commuter-rail-part-of-new-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2019\/06\/07\/commuter-rail-part-of-new-urbanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Rail: Part of New Urbanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House passes SB 241 – voting was 213-141 along party lines<\/em><\/p>\n

If you care about taxes, you will care about this issue which by all accounts would be a huge detriment to the NH Advantage.<\/p>\n

These 8 Republicans voted for SB 241 which by the DOT’s own study portends to be the worst financial boondoggle ever for NH and likely cause a huge new broad-based tax: James Allard, Arthur Barnes, Joel Desilets, George Feeney, Dennis Fields, Werner Horn, Aboul Khan, Walter Stapleton.<\/p>\n

Feeney, Fields, and Stapleton represent areas upcountry where the residents would not even benefit from this, but their constituents would pay just the same.<\/p>\n

ARE THEY YOUR REPS?<\/p>\n

KUDOS to these 5 Democrats who had the courage to break with their party and vote NO: Susan Ticehurst, Edith Tucker, Linn Opderbecke, Henry Parkhurst, Judith Spang.<\/p>\n

All 5 of the above-named Democrats were smart enough to know they also represent areas where the residents would not even benefit from this, but their constituents would pay just the same.<\/p>\n

44 Reps were missing on this very important vote. (2 of 46 were excused)<\/p>\n

Be sure to call the Governor’s office (603-271-2121) and leave a message that you want him to stick with his party and VETO SB 241 – a ridiculous, wasteful bill.<\/p>\n

If you are too shy to call, sign the petition<\/a> and your name will be included with those who want this bill VETOED.<\/p>\n

Please read about Dallas Area Rail Transit (DART)<\/a> and how while touted as ‘successful’ does not fulfill the promise of alleviating traffic, nor paying for itself.<\/p>\n

The Democrats do not seem care if they impose another tax upon NH.<\/p>\n

This DART article also reveals something we all knew \u2014 rails are part of the “New Urbanism”<\/a> movement to socially engineer where we live, work, play, and travel, having “…generated $5 billion in transit-oriented development around its 62 stations”<\/strong>, \u201c…changing the way the region grows and how North Texans live\u201d<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House passes SB 241 – voting was 213-141 along party lines If you care about taxes, you will care about this issue which by all accounts would be a huge detriment to the NH Advantage. These 8 Republicans voted for SB 241 which by the DOT’s own study portends to be the worst financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}