OH: Sylvania, Maumee Mull TARTA Property Tax Proposal

TARTA representatives emphasized a future of smaller vehicles and more attractive service, including an option resembling ride sharing, when they pitched a proposed transit sales tax in place of property taxes to the city councils in Sylvania and Maumee.

Neither council took action after hearing the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority’s presentations Monday night. But in order for the sales tax — now proposed at 0.4 percent — to get on the Nov. 6 ballot, they and their counterparts in five other communities will need to pass resolutions admitting Lucas County as a TARTA member by early August.

Plans for around-the-clock transit operations — including a new tier of service that James Gee, TARTA’s general manager, told Sylvania’s council will “out-Uber Uber” — were outlined in a strategic plan the transit authority released last month in response to previous criticism that it was requesting more money for stale, unpopular service.

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