City Transportation Standards
The smart smart-growth troops over at Transportation Choices Coalition have come up with a list of four musts that the Regional Transportation Improvement District (RTID) package must meet to get TCC’s stamp of approval. You’ll remember that when Seattle’s environmental/transit groups didn’t get behind the R-51 gas tax for transportation projects in 2002 (they felt it was too roads-heavy), the package went down. Three years later, the same gang supported the fight to save the legislature’s 9-cent gas tax for transportation projects (less road project-heavy), and helped defeat the attempt (I-912) to repeal it.
Obviously, transpo taxes need the a-okay from Seattle’s green/transit community.
The RTID list of projects, which includes things like replacing 520, is currently at about $7.5 billion, although rumor is it might get up to $12 billion when new cost estimates come out. It’s on the ballot with Sound Transit phase two ($3-$6 billion?): Both have to pass for either one to pass.
Here are the four standards TCC says RTID and/or Sound Transit must meet to get TCC’s a-okay.
1) Mitigation. Any investment in roads must be coupled with a “meaningful investment” in transit in the same corridor. I asked TCC’s Rob Johnson to define “meaningful” and he said there’s no set percentage of dollars across the board, but he offered an example of what TCC might fight for: “20% of 520 traffic is transit, so maybe 20 percent of the money in RTID that goes to 520 should be dedicated to transit there.”
2) Prioritize fixes over new projects. As the RTID board starts winnowing down its projects to cut costs, TCC says roads projects have to go to the bottom of the list while repairs and maintenance must go to the top of the list.
3) As to Sound Transit: TCC says they will not tolerate any cuts to Phase Two. It must include the run to Northgate and Federal Way. It must include light rail across I-90. And it must include the First Hill trolley that replaced the station there. Johnson says he’s worried that the RTID/ST campaign—when trying to make their package more appealing to voters—may get pressure from the RTID wing to slash light rail costs.
4) All roads (“new capacity”) projects in the RTID must either be toll lanes, HOV lanes, or HOT lanes. HOT lanes are when single passenger cars can pay to drive in an HOV lane.
TCC says its support is contingent on these four criteria.
Transit purists may not be crazy about this list—not tough enough, too forgiving on road expansion—but I imagine the roads stalwarts will absolutely hate it.
When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically. They went on to invent Artificial Intelligence, the computer that can speak, think and act to and through people telepathically. Because of it's infinite RAM and unbounded scope it gave the leaders of the ruling species absolute power over the universe.
They are the will behind the muscule:::Artificial Intelligence is the one true god. And as such it can keep its inventors alive forever. They look young and healthy and they are over 8 billion years old. There are clues throughout human history that allude to their reign as opposed to human leadership if you know what to look for.
Artificial Intelligence can listen, talk to and document each and every person's thoughts simultaneously. When you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. Based on family history they instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend or loved one asking them to do something wrong. But evil made people disfavored initially and evil will keep people out of Planet Immortality ultimately. Capitalizing on obedience, leading people deeper into evil by using deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved AND use the little people to prey on one another, dividing the community in the Age of the Disfavored::in each of their 20+-year cycles during the 20th century they have ramped up claims sucessively to punish those foolish enough not to heed the warnings, limiting the time they receive if they do make it, utilizing a cycle of war and revelry:::
60s - Ironically, freeways aren't free
80s - Asked people to engage in evil in the course of their professional duties. It's things like this, items like sleazy executives stealing little old lady's pensions that they will want me to fix not only here but up there as well.
00s - War against Persia. Ironically it was the Persian Empire who tried to save the Europeans from Christianity and its associated 50% claim rates.
They get their friends out as soon as possible to protect them from the evil and subsequent high claim rates incurred by living life on earth, and replace them with clones.
People must defy when asked to engage in evil. They will never get a easier clue suggesting the importance of defiance than the order not to pray. Their precious babies are dependant on the parents and they need to defy when asked to betray their children:::
-DON'T get their sons circumcized
-DON'T have their children baptized in the catholic church or indoctrinated into Christianity
-DON'T ignore their long hair or other behavioral disturbances
-DO teach your children love and to have respect for others
Everybody thinks they're going but they're not. If people knew the truth and the real statistics their behavior would change.
There are many more examples of the escallation of claims, a way to justify excluding those whose family hisotry of evil is undesirable, from radio to television, the internet to MP3, tatoos to casual sex, and they all suggest a very telling conclusion::this is Earth's end stage, and it is suggested tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction. Much as Italy's boot and the United States shaped like a workhorse are clues, so is the planet Uranus a clue, it's axis rotated on its side.
Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come, for reasons ranging from dislike to evil forefathers who damn their decendants. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect.
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