Slog - Comments on Mass Transit Now Volunteer Opportunities! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities If you, like us, are supporting the Mass Transit Now campaign, now's your chance to do more than just vote for 36 miles of light rail and 100,000 new hours of express bus service. This weekend is full of opportunities all over the region to volunteer with the campaign. In King County: The campaign will be dropping literature in the Green Lake neighborhood starting at 10:00 this Saturday morning. Volunteers will meet at the Green Lake Starbucks. The campaign recommends bringing a bag for literature and comfortable shoes; the lit drop will go for about two hours. Later that same... Copyright 2008 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:18:48 -0800 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:24:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elswinger While reading this post I overheard the manager of the nursing home I live in tell an employee how she is against the transit system because she never rides the bus (she drives a Lincoln) and would never set foot on a "subway" and doesn't think it's her responsibility to subsidize "lazy" people. The employee said she was going to have to vote for it because she needs the bus to come to work. In a huff, the manager said "Now I know why you are always late. Maybe you should buy a car so you'd get to work on time."

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182506 City Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:39:26 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle You know, if we just set fire to the Lincoln, the manager wouldn't have that problem.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182516 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182516 City Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:47:26 -0800 Comment by Greg So why is nothing happening on the eastside? Given it up for a lost cause?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182533 City Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:59:03 -0800 Comment by AJ "Galapalooza"?

What.

]]> AJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/mass_transit_now_volunteer_opportunities#c1182565 City Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:24:05 -0800