The Mass Transit Now! (Yes on Prop. 1) campaign is gaining quite the amount of momentum. (Proposition 1 is the Sound Transit proposal to expand light rail across the region.) There were some volunteer events this past weekend, so you may have seen people with Mass Transit Now! stickers at the Seahawks or Huskies games, or you may have seen volunteer canvassing in West Seattle.
But the real adventure has yet to begin! This Wednesday the campaign will host a kickoff event in Northgate. The meeting place has excellent transit options, so I hope everyone can make it! The event will talk about how we’re going to pass Prop. 1, volunteer opportunities, and how to sell transit to your friends & family.
What: Mass Transit Now! Kickoff Event
When: Wednesday, September 17th. 6:00pm until 8:30 pm
Where: Northgate Community Center, 10510 5th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125 (map – public transit)
RSVP: Please RSVP to Rebecca or on Facebook
I hope to see you there! In related news, the Mass Transit Now! website has just recently re-launched. Andrew briefly covered this last week, but I’d like to show off some particularly good parts about the site.
- The revamped Plan page nicely summarizes the contents of Prop. 1 in an easy-to-digest format.
- The Myths page responds to some common anti-Prop. 1 arguments, and the Opposition page tells folks just who’s funding these attacks. It’s nice to see the yes campaign leading the message this time around.
- The Endorsements page which could be boring, but isn’t — because you can add your own endorsements just like comments on a blog. We have a bunch of commenters here who haven’t endorsed yet — what’s up with that? Go endorse the plan, guys!
- The measure won’t pass itself, so consider volunteering or printing out some fliers.
(I would like our visitors to know that I am indeed a volunteer for Mass Transit Now! so this entire post is obviously colored by that. Most of my work so far as been on the website that I talk about above, so let me know if we can improve the site in any way.)
The main page graphics look a bit cartoonish, but overall it’s a pretty good site.
I particularly like the “Myths” and “Opposition” pages. It’s nice to see the pro-camp finally willing to go toe-to-toe with the anti’s and call them out publically for what they are doing. It’s about time.
Hopefully some broadcast material will follow, but it’s a good start. It’s time to get the real message out.
Where do we get yard signs?
Max, if you show up to Wednesday night’s kickoff event I’m sure there will be some laying around.
Otherwise, email Rebecca above and she can hook you up :)
What about bumper stickers??
I dunno if stickers exist yet, but they’re definitely being planned.
How was the kickoff event last night?
It was pretty cool. I’ll try to get some pictures up on the campaign site over the next few days.