By Rebecca Spiess | Downtown Devil
Phoenix voters could soon decide the fate of future light rail expansions, including the South Central light rail.
Anti-light rail advocacy group and Phoenix political commitee, Building a Better Phoenix filed a ballot initiative at City Hall Wednesday to stop light rail expansions and to instead use the funds towards infrastructure improvements.
The new ballot measure would stop any expansions included in Prop. 104, a sales tax voters approved in 2015 to fund transportation infrastructure which included multiple light rail expansion plans.
The group brought boxes of over 40,000 signatures, almost double the roughly 20,500 signatures needed to get their initiative qualified for the March ballot, to the front doors of City Hall. Before wheeling the boxes upstairs, the group held a press conference touting the message: “Light rail costs too much and gives too little.”
