Constantine: Avoid sting of deep cuts, bump up county sales tax – Seattle Times

April 30th, 2010

Constantine: Avoid sting of deep cuts, bump up county sales tax
Seattle Times
Sound Transit and Metro Transit already receive 1.8 percent of the sales tax, which should equate to $711 million in subsidies. I don't know about you, ...

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State tweaks plan for light-rail ready 520 bridge – Seattle Post Intelligencer

April 30th, 2010

State tweaks plan for light-rail ready 520 bridge
Seattle Post Intelligencer
“That's not the state, that's Sound Transit. They don't have a plan, they don't have any funding, so it's up to them to come up with a plan and funding for ...

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America 2050

April 30th, 2010
Think back (if you are old enough) to 1970 and imagine you were then asked to write a plan for America for 2010. In 1970, you wouldn’t have known about personal computers, and so you probably wouldn’t expect that the number of people working at home in 2010 would be growing faster than the number [...]

State tweaks plan for light-rail ready 520 bridge – Bellevue Reporter

April 29th, 2010

State tweaks plan for light-rail ready 520 bridge
Bellevue Reporter
“That's not the state, that's Sound Transit. They don't have a plan, they don't have any funding, so it's up to them to come up with a plan and funding for ...

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Take the time to do light rail right in Bellevue – Bellevue Reporter

April 29th, 2010

Take the time to do light rail right in Bellevue
Bellevue Reporter
Now, with no sense of investment or ownership in Bellevue, Sound Transit has managed to bully its way into our very consciousness to the point where even ...

State announces preferred alternative for SR 520 floating bridge project – Bellevue Reporter

April 29th, 2010

State announces preferred alternative for SR 520 floating bridge project
Bellevue Reporter
Be ready for a future light rail connection to Sound Transit's U-LINK station by creating a space between the bridge structures at the west end of the ...

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Lid over Montlake Blvd. proposed for new 520 bridge – Seattle Times

April 29th, 2010

Lid over Montlake Blvd. proposed for new 520 bridge
Seattle Times
Sound Transit's time and money are currently tied up in a voter-approved rail route on Interstate 90, from the Chinatown International District to downtown ...

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Lying with Statistics

April 28th, 2010
As the Antiplanner recently noted, rail and smart-growth advocates are fond of using touchy-feely arguments for their costly policies, and when presented with evidence that a preponderance of their projects are unquestionable failures, they simply respond that critics “lie with statistics.” The Antiplanner’s response is that you have to rely on data to figure out [...]

New streetcar line passes committee – KING5.com

April 27th, 2010

New streetcar line passes committee
KING5.com
The $130 million project is part of the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure voters approved in 2008. SDOT calls it an important link in the regional transit ...

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TNT: DuPont joins Lakewood in resisting rail bypass plan – Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

April 26th, 2010

TNT: DuPont joins Lakewood in resisting rail bypass plan
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Lakewood has argued that it didn't object because the modifications were part of Sound Transit's plan to extend commuter rail service from Tacoma Dome ...

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