SORTA approves ballot language for transportation levy

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Southwest Ohio Transit Authority voted to approve the language for a sales tax levy to support Metro buses and infrastructure projects. No money from the sales tax will go to the streetcar, according to SORTA.

The sales tax would be for 0.8 percent for 25 years, if approved by voters in March 2020.

Twenty-five percent of the money from the levy would go for infrastructure projects, including building or maintaining roads, bridges or sidewalks.

The other seventy-five percent would go to operating Metro. It would be used to update Metro buses, new transit centers, new routes, longer hours and park and rides.

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If this is approved, the City of Cincinnati earnings tax would go down by 0.3 percent.