Endorsing a Vote for the City of Austin

                 The city of Austin needs voters to vote on an important issue on November 4, 2014. Proposition 1 is a subject everyone registered should vote upon. Even if you are not registered, I recommend looking into this proposition.  It would provide funds to help transportation. 

                  Road improvements are a very important thing to fund, the proposition would help better construct roads and add newer roads. The proposition would also fund to build a rail line trough Austin, perhaps reducing the car traffic. The rail line would link many locations such as Downtown, the UT campus, and the new ACC campus just to name a few. 

                  The author of the Burnt Orange Report puts forth a very good point. Prop 1 would lessen the burden on tax payers by taking money from the rainy day fund and push it towards road construction and a rail line. The author was overall persuasive with his article - Endorsing a Vote for the City of Austin Proposition 1. He puts a very interesting idea of augmenting bus routes with the rail line to provide more cross town linking. 

                  Even though this article is good, the author missed one of the major points. How are the funds going to be distributed among the construction and the rail line? Even though a few blips in the article. I recommend reading this article, but also researching more into the topic. Personally, I would also recommend voting yes on Proposition 1.