Prop 1

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Honolulu, Eugene, San Jose are a few that pop in my head.

Salt Lake City is around the 24th most used transit system in the US. We pay a much higher average of our sales tax .69 percent last time I heard. Which is well above the average. We have longer wait times than the average and less access to jobs via public transportation than average. They are also pretty low on most rankings by public opinion.

Then we could compare to other countries, since USA has poor transportation compared to many international cities.

I wish we would combine buses for high school kids and the city. It would save a lot of money. No reason kids need their own buses in high school.

I looked up San Jose. The VTA is funded by a 1 and 1/8th cent sales tax and they have an increase on the ballot this year that is double prop1. They have also gotten quite a bit of funding from the state of California. I imagine they also get more from their sales tax because they have more wealthy residents in Santa Clara County than we do in SL. Further they benefit from surrounding counties with good transit systems.

Salt lake does have a .69 of a cent tax but surrounding counties are lower(this is why your transit sucks other counties). I bet if you looked at funding per rider(I can't find it) San Jose is funded much better.