10ftcommute

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Next chapters in the Great Transit Debate

Posted Thu, Jul 16, 9:37 p.m.

Or ,more properly, nadir.

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Next chapters in the Great Transit Debate

Posted Thu, Jul 16, 9:12 p.m.

Bummer. Makes the system of no use whatsoever to the citizens of the greater King County area, who have to drive to ride the system. Billions of dollars spent with no benefit to anyone but the residents of the housing projects, who can't afford cars. Bogosity at its epidemy.

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A dramatic vote in favor of a rail transit plan

Posted Sun, Jul 27, 9:54 a.m.

too late, wrong funding, outdated technology: Dead on arrival #2. Sound Transit has its collective head in the clouds again. From its inception, the agency has chosen the wrong technology--on-grade standard rail--over more innovative, cheaper-to-build, quicker-to-implement solutions. The funding mechanism (a NICKEL INCREASE of the sales tax??? crazy!) is outrageously ...

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Cheers not jeers to Speaker Chopp on the Microsoft tax concession

Posted Sun, Mar 30, 9:03 p.m.

MS bull: Grant County has to have the lowest power rates in the nation, except maybe for adjacent counties along the Columbia. Server farms need to get more efficient, re-utilizing their waste heat and implementing solar to mitigate their enormous energy use. Bill and the boys are bluffing; the ones ...

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Overwhelmingly, Washington voters would prefer a primary election to caucuses

Posted Tue, Feb 26, 9:06 a.m.

Disenfranchised by major parties: I had not missed voting in an election for over fifteen years, until the major parties and the courts made my primary vote worthless. I threw my absentee ballot in the trash for the last two primaries. Since when do the rights of a political party ...

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Transportation decision-making: What if Proposition 1 fails?

Posted Mon, Oct 15, 9:14 a.m.

Sims is right: Ron Sims is right--The RTID has been a loser from inception, has only gotten worse, and it's time to admit it. I agree we need some entity to make sensible, cost-effective decisions that are INTEGRATED and COORDINATED. The WSDOT is a fiefdom with its own budget, as ...

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