Countywide tax pitched to fix traffic – HeraldNet

January 30th, 2008
Countywide tax pitched to fix traffic HeraldNet, WA - Jan 30, 2008
 The new tax package would have to be smaller than the failed RTID proposal, which would have collected $2 billion in Snohomish County and proved to be too ...

Two on a transportation life raft – Seattle Times

January 27th, 2008
Two on a transportation life raft Seattle Times, United States - Jan 27, 2008
 The current Sound Transit board members are placed in their roles by dint of being elected to something else — mayor, county council, county executive, ...

National politics update: The careless NYT; the demise of Rudy – Crosscut

January 26th, 2008
National politics update: The careless NYT; the demise of Rudy Crosscut, WA - 6 hours ago
 Mary Margaret Haugen's fox-in-the-henhouse proposal that Sound Transit take over regional transportation planning and decisionmaking is a formula for more ...

Olympia's Senate Majority Leader Says…

January 25th, 2008
She made it clear that part of the proposal—snuffing RTID—was a good idea. "We shouldn't just let RTID continue," she said. It seemed that the real appeal for Sen. Brown was the part of Haugen's proposal that would allow regional ...

Put Sound Transit in charge of roads, too?

January 23rd, 2008
The RTID, which devised the roads portion of November's unsuccessful roads-and-transit measure, is moribund anyway. But Haugen wants to allow some regions to form some transportation entities, which might leave room for Pierce County to ...

Sound Transit change urged – Seattle Post Intelligencer

January 22nd, 2008
Sound Transit change urged Seattle Post Intelligencer - 13 hours ago
By LARRY LANGE Bills to eliminate an existing road-project agency and make Seattle-based Sound Transit the first agency to coordinate and help finance major ...

Sound Transit could become a "super agency" that builds roads – HeraldNet

January 22nd, 2008
Sound Transit could become a "super agency" that builds roads HeraldNet, WA - 21 hours ago
 Attempts to get Sound Transit to fall under the control of a regional transportation agency fell flat last year, so transportation leaders in Olympia are ...

Sen. Haugen's two governance reform bills

January 22nd, 2008
“Puget Sound voters overwhelmingly rejected a three-county RTID last November, but the current statute would allow any of the three counties involved to try it again on their own, or in partnership with a single neighboring county,” ...

More Governance

January 22nd, 2008
After all, voters in the RTID district, who would make up the bulk of the RTC's population, just recently voted down the $17B Prop. 1. Simply redrawing the map around these people doesn't get you the $62B you need to complete our ...

Transportation: Can’t we all just get along?

January 22nd, 2008
An opponent of Proposition 1 opens the bidding, in hopes of finding a middle ground in the transportation wars. The peace treaty: a little more rail, no new highways, some highway fixes, unclogging arterials, tolls, and no more cute trolleys.
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