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Power Lines Revisited

Why can't Vienna get its power lines on Maple Avenue underground? Stop one day and just look up. It is plain awful what hangs up and down our main street.

Posted by Historic Vienna Posts on February 4, 2008 08:12 AM |

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It is apparently too expensive to bury the power lines. Of course, there was enough money for Town Council members to erect a monument to themselves (Town Green), but there is not enough to bury the power lines (or build many sorely needed sidewalks, reduce property taxes, etc.).

Posted by: gridlock | February 4, 2008 10:35 AM

What exactly are they using the 4% meal tax for now? Next time you go out to eat look at the tax part of your bill it comes to 9%. Once a tax is in place it never seems to go away does it!?

Posted by: Susan | February 4, 2008 05:11 PM

If memory serves, at least 1 cent of the 4 cent restaurant tax is supposed to finance the fancy brick sidewalks that the Town installed a few years back. Of course, the mess of that construction cost local businesses dearly, thereby reducing business and sales tax collections, so some of the restaurant tax may actually be used to offset the revenue losses caused by Council's need to view red brick sidewalks.

Posted by: Pontific8tor | February 6, 2008 02:04 PM

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