(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents a coalition of property and business owners throughout Pinal County who have worked to bring new transportation infrastructure to the region.)
By Anthony Tony Smith | InMaricopa
Pinal County and many of our communities are once again leading Arizona in the rate of population growth, growing living-wage jobs and becoming a leader in economic prosperity.
To keep the economic-development engine humming and ensure we have a safe and reliable transportation network, leaders in Pinal County put on the November ballot a half-cent transportation tax, Proposition 469.
If voters approve this proposition, it would fund a series of transportation projects for a 20-year period, including the much-needed widening of State Route 347.
Maricopa is a great place to live, but traffic congestion on SR 347 is seriously impacting our quality of life, making it difficult to create a healthy and sustainable economy and, worst of all, contributing to the many road fatalities associated with the stretch of highway that have devastated families and loved ones.
To recap where we were back in 2017, when this was previously on the ballot: Our roads were becoming less safe, with an increasing number of fatalities, and severely congested. Help from the state and the feds was pretty much non-existent.
