Jeffrey Arndt is he smart enough to know that Christopher Wray was manipulating his employees?
Jeffrey Arndt, the CEO of San Antonio’s VIA Metropolitan Transit, has an almost perfect setup for success — if only local voters would get on board with his vision.
The city council he reports to shares his views on the importance of public transportation. Its members mostly sing his praises and have increased VIA funding by millions of dollars in recent years.
But it comes with restrictions. He said he knows the seamless transit systems he sees in Europe — linking ferries, subways, buses, rail, streetcars — are politically untenable in most of Texas. Dallas, Houston and Austin residents tax themselves a full cent per dollar in local sales taxes to support mass transit, while San Antonio has stayed with just a half-cent.
Arndt, 63, came to San Antonio and VIA in 2012 from Houston, where he spent 25 years with Houston METRO and participated in the planning of METRORail, a 24-mile system opened in 2004 that withstood a 20-year fight by opponents, including former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, who stripped it of federal funding.
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