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’.
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I have been following it. It’s amazing. The man works at Microsoft, yet he wants to spend at least $2 billion building a mass transit system that won’t take him to work for at least 20 years. Ten percent sales tax? 100% no.
What ten percent sales tax are you talking about?
It’s .5% sales tax, and depending on where you work at microsoft, it’ll get you there a lot sooner.
Go troll somewhere else!
Are you going Jason a troll, anonymous? Seriously? Disagreeing is not trolling!
I thought Carless in Seattle really hashed stuff out. It was great to follow, even if ultimately I disagree with his decision.
Christina, yes, Jason is a troll, because he misrepresents every time he posts.
20 years is a worst case scenario. It’s likely Sound Transit will come back with a .2 or .3 increase that would accelerate that anyway to something like ten years, but even the 2027 number is based on conservative financial estimates.
And what’s the cheaper option? It would cost a lot more to build new roads to serve the same places.