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concert with the city's multimodal
transportation aspect of its longrange plan. Almost three years later,
VIA Reimagined was introduced,
a 10-year plan based on community-driven priorities identified in
the VIA Vision 2040 Plan. VIA Reimagined serves as the first phase
in executing that vision.
"Both Vision 2040 and VIA Reimagined incorporate and build on
the SA Tomorrow Plan, primarily
by increasing connectivity between the regional employment
centers identified in SA Tomorrow," said Lorraine Pulido, Ph.D.,
communications manager and
public information officer, VIA.
Finding additional funding for
the VIA Reimagined plan required
some ingenuity. To do this, VIA
Board Chair Hope Andrade met
with San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge
Nelson Wolff. They created an organization, ConnectSA, to compile
the city's multimodal transportation plan VIA's 2040 Plan and
VIA's Reimagined Plan, along with
other city plans, to identify gaps
in funding. In December 2018,
the organization released a draft
of its findings, which identified the
plan, what it cost, what funding
was already there, what funding
was needed and how that funding
could be obtained, Arndt explains.
"Their plan at that point was
everything, I would say, short
of answering the funding part,"
Arndt said.
Filling the Gap
Finding additional funding required strong partnerships with key
stakeholders. In the beginning, it
wasn't VIA asking city officials for
more funding to implement these
transformational plans. It was
Mayor Nirenberg and Judge Wolff
who brought up the issue regarding
lack of funding, both of whom have
been advocates and supporters of
improving public transit.
"Mayor [Nirenberg] and Judge
[Wolff] have worked on finding a
way to use other sources of funds
that the city and county have to
fund the aquifer protection and
Linear Creekways piece of the [sales
tax-funded] program, which is oneeighth cent sales tax," Arndt said.
"And then, that one-eighth cent
sales tax would go to the voters for
approval to add to VIA's funding."
If approved, that one-eighth
cent sales tax would fund the expansion of services associated with
the VIA Reimagined Plan, as well
as capital costs such as more buses for the added service. However,
this still leaves a vital part of the
plan unfunded, which includes the
creation of the Advanced Rapid
Transit (ART) Program.
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