October 31st, 2007
| Are you ready to pay for light rail to Fife?
Seattle Times, United States - 13 hours ago
At the cost of billions, Sound Transit is building one light-rail line. It will have 12 stops. Back to our hypothetical. Suppose we want to cut car use 75 ... |
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October 31st, 2007
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October 31st, 2007
| Prop. 1 | Which residents can vote on issue?
Seattle Times, United States - 8 hours ago
The "Roads & Transit" voting district is the same as today's Sound Transit taxing district in urban King and Pierce counties (seemap). If you're unsure, ... |
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October 31st, 2007
| Proposition 1 just one piece in 520 bridge puzzle
Seattle Times, United States - 8 hours ago
... including the SR 520 bridge, the SR 9 bridge over the Snohomish River, and Seattle's South Park Bridge," says a recent mailing funded by Sound Transit. ... |
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October 31st, 2007
Last month, the Congressional Research Service put out two reports on federal transit funding. These reports offer some intriguing alternatives for transit for the next round of federal transportation reauthorization, which is due in 2009.
Click on image to download.
The first report (above), issued in September, deals a little more with transit history and structure. The [...]
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October 30th, 2007
Dinner train operator Eric Temple may not have cleared his last table, but for the time being, at least, his popular Spirit of Washington is being relegated to the pantry.
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October 30th, 2007
Last weekend I was in Atlanta. I took MARTA, the City's public transit system, ... " out, and they refuse to let the train lines extend into their areas (as if the lack of transit is going to prevent any ... your riders stop using your service. On the bus, there were TVs with the sound on. An HGTV show
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October 30th, 2007
As a reporter concluded a month ago, the more money they spend, the more people hear about this, the less they like it. After the yes campaign has spent millions, their support tops out in tax-and-spend liberal King County at 47%. ...
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October 30th, 2007
The new Washington Poll was released last night and shows that most of the statewide ballot measures – as well as Puget Sound's Prop. 1 – are in the hands of voters who haven't made up their minds.
So if you haven't mailed in your ballot yet, expect to become very popular with the campaigns.
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poll asked 600 voters how they intended to vote. That means the results have a margin of error of 4 percent.
On Initiative 960, which would require two-thirds votes for future tax increases, 41 percent said they were certain to vote yes ...
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October 30th, 2007
The Sierra Club and Ron Sims, the King County executive and former Sound Transit chair, say it best: Propositon 1 makes global warming worse while authorizing the largest tax increase in state history.
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