No matter how much our opponents want to distance themselves from VTA, Measure B is still another VTA tax: placed on the ballot and to be collected by VTA.
Why don’t they mention VTA? Because they know VTA has a bad reputation.

Where’s the momentum when it’s all just shifting funding from other transit priorities.

The current Eco Pass program would not include BART…Students would be forced to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket to ride BART every month.

Learn how Measure B would put VTA bus and light rail service at risk.

In 2000, proponents said a $6-billion tax was enough. The judge threw out this sentence from our rebuttal because although we referred to “proponents”, he said that we hadn’t proved that VTA itself had said this. Well, we actually had proof that VTA asserted this also, but because of the way in which our opponents challenged us, we weren’t allowed to submit the evidence that we had on hand. Here’s the proof we wanted to submit to the judge.
Oct 2000 Articles from the Palo Alto Daily and Mercury News

VTA memo …