Greater Scrutiny Urged For I-90 Light Rail Plan

May 16th, 2007
In a Seattle Times op-ed published today, the former chief examiner of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, George Kargianis, and former state Supreme Court justice Phil Talmadge assert Sound Transit's proposal to build light rail across Lake Washington to Eastside suburbs via the I-90 floating bridge just doesn't pencil out. We have taken no official position yet on either the Eastside light rail proposal or the larger November, 2007 roads and transit ballot measure of which it is a part. However, our Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute supports system wide, time variable automated highway tolling; taxpayer-friendly design-build ...

New 520 bridge may mean tolls on I-90, too

April 8th, 2007
State Treasurer Michael Murphy rejects the finance plan for the proposed rebuilding of the Highway 520 bridge and won't bankroll the project unless lawmakers levy tolls on the Interstate 90 crossing as well.
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