I don’t know if any of you have been following it, but Mike at Carless in Seattle has been running a long serious of posts on the different points with respect to Prop. 1. I don’t agree with him on many of the points (particularly GHG of RTID), and I was really suprised that he wound up voting ‘yes’. It seemed he was leaning to ‘no’.
Bus Chicklet
This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.
Congratulations to Carla, a.k.a. “Bus Chick,” on her baby girl!
Why South Sound Deserves Transit
The News Tribune makes their case. They seem to understand the long-term importance of transit:
It was painful to see the headline atop the lead front-page story in Thursday’s Seattle Times: “Light rail to Tacoma: Is it worth the money?”
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The problem with nearly all criticisms of light rail is that they focus on current population densities and demand for transit. Yet Proposition 1 would create enduring transportation corridors operating independently of freeways and adaptable to future transit technologies. Build the line from Sea-Tac to Tacoma in our lifetime, and it will be there in our great-grandchildren’s lifetimes.