More on CUMTD and Savoy

From today's News-Gazette:

Scott Garth and Linda Stark are among a select number of Savoy businesses owners whose property, on the east side of U.S. 45, could be annexed immediately by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District if an annexation agreement with the village is approved.

"I joke and say it's because we're on the wrong side of the tracks," said Stark, owner of Savoy Storage, near the corner of U.S. 45 and Church Street.

Garth's business, Curtis Road Self Storage, sits just north of Stark's near the intersection of Curtis Road and U.S. 45.

But just across U.S. 45, businesses such as Old Orchard Lanes and Links, the Senator's Inn, the Best Western, the Savoy Super Wash, ABC Learning Center, Sonic and the Mobil Gas Station, among others, wouldn't be annexed by the MTD for 25 years.

"This has blown me away," Garth said. "If people are going to pay for this thing in Savoy, everybody needs to pay for it. But (I feel like) they are singling out businesses only to support this. I can understand apartments needing MTD service, but we probably will not ever have anyone get off an MTD bus to store stuff with us. The MTD is not a moving service."

I, for one, welcome our new CUMTD overlords.

Discuss.