he Gloria StovallNovember 13, 2000Sect: John Gulickfact that four local tax measures to widen Highway 101 failed in the 1990s, the money has been earmarked for the project will come from state and federal gas taxes. Voters have rejected sales taxes for expanding Highway 101 and mass transit which leaves the county at a disadvantage competing with eighteen other counties that have local transportation taxes to augment state and federal money. Some local officials hope that seeing the car pool lane project will make voters more enthusiastic about raising sales taxes for transportation funding. At this point, there has been no such luck with this. Each time there is a new proposition for the sales taxes, voters vote against it, leaving transportation with low funding for the construction. Even though transportation money is not coming from sales taxes and doesnt look to be soon, late negotiations on Governor Gray Davis five-year $5.3 billion transportation plan did produce an additional $17 million for Highway 101. ...
