Today’s must-read: Bridge crisis averted!
The state Legislature has passed a budget sans an anticipated takeaway of more than $1 billion in locals’ gas tax funds (the Assembly balked at the last minute). Which means the county’s threats to leave three county-run drawbridges up at night have been stayed.
“I’m relieved and grateful for the Assembly’s actions,” Mayor Beverly Johnson told [...]
The bridges of Alameda
As I reported the other day, the state’s elected leaders, in an effort to close a multi-billion-dollar budget gap, have proposed a plan to take back more than $1 billion in gas tax money that is used by cities and counties to fund road and transit improvements. I reported that the plan would cost Alameda [...]
