VIA board to call for November public transit tax vote

The VIA Metropolitan Transit and Advanced Transportation District boards voted unanimously on Thursday to call for a November proposition to divert revenue from the one-eighth-cent portion of state sales tax from Edwards Aquifer protection to local transit. The decision comes about a week after board members voted to table the move to reach some consensus with public officials. "If we do not act now, we may not have the opportunity again. Not in May, not in a generation," VIA Board Chair Hope Andrade…