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1
You gotta love how that "Land Airbus" magically stretches and contracts around those sharp right angle turns. Physics be damned.
2
Charles, your research is usually better than this. Tacoma did support saving transit service: twice. The Pierce Transit funding proposals failed because they were soundly defeated outside of Tacoma in the crappy, sprawling suburbs of Pierce County.
3
Always remember that if you are not very rich, taxes are your friends, not your enemies
well not to put too fine a point on it, some are better "friends" than others (that's why adjectives were invented)
4
A few years ago, everyone was begging for subway or in city light rail, they couldn't care less that the bus system was failing.

So at what point, after this passes, will the citizens demand an even bigger price hike to pay for an expensive subway system?
5
@2, i have the link to the numbers. 54% is just not going to cut it - not when you competing with the farms and the suburbs. tacoma lost because tacoma lost. the core needed to be 70% not an inspirational 54%.
6
@2 And the same will likely happen here. Seattle wants transit, much of the rest of the County doesn't give a shit.

Which is why Sound Transit should run the regional commuter routes, and cities like Seattle and Tacoma can fund their own local routes.

If we were free from having to drag monroe along we could actually build a useful and comprehensive transit system in this City.
7
I live with 5 other voting adults. We all voted no.
8
Good Morning Charles,
For the record, I voted and voted for Prop 1.

However, one minor quibble with what you wrote. "...taxes are your friends..." I think it is counterintuitive to believe such. Taxes are neither good nor bad, friends or enemies. The rich and poor aren't necessarily fixed one way or another on the idea of taxes. More of them? Maybe. What humans want is accountability of their taxes. They want taxes that work and work well.
9
A wonderfully crazy idea, that "Airbus".
10
Charles, that's one hell of a fast and loose play on numbers. 54% is a majority. You can stamp your feet and say a majority isn't enough, but all it takes is 50.0000001% for Tacoma to be supporting the measure.

You're better than this.
11
@7 Well fuck you all for making my commute even more hellish if this fails
@2 @10 Man you guys got Charles. Yup all Tacoma needed was 50%+1 vote for it to express a majority opinion. And we all know that things passed by the city at 50%+1 always passes at the county level. And that having a 8% margin of victory in your area translates into solid solidarity.
12
I can already see that thing causing accidents, or someone plowing into the side as it's turning. People can't be trusted
13
Ah the Tacoma Troll strikes again. Thanks for the insight CM, but #2 gets it right.

14
@11, bringing the county into a city topic is a tangential strawman.
15
@13 see @5
16
@7 You're a short-sighted moron who lives with other short-sighted morons. What did you save, voting against Prop 1? Enough to buy a pizza? Big Whoop. I hope your car throws a rod.
17

Here's how you should vote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAxO-za3…

18
Until metro learns how to unfuck itself, and when the bus riders actually start to pony up a little in bus fare, then I will vote no now and every time in the future.

sick and tired of metros broken promises and irrational spending.

$60 tab increase is criminal.
20
+1 to @6 & @14 Metro needs to find a way to make this a city of Seattle issue not a King County issue, big tab increases on the majority that will never use Metro is not and never will fly. We in Seattle have to look out of our bubble and face the facts that we are the minority in the state regardless of the $$ that we generate. All you have to do is go 15 miles out of the city to see this.
21
I want to support this, but I desperately wish there were some way other than increasing our already onerously regressive sales tax.
22
@20 if we stop using metro your roads will griock and you know it
23
You can't make a separate county and city bus system. There are too many people who live outside the city limits that bus into Seattle to work.

This is, in part, linked to the $15 minimum wage. If Seattle wants its fancy restaurants and cheep chains, but insists on paying poverty wages and forcing those workers to commute in from Federal Way, then we have to provide some sort of transportation system.
24
@17: JBITDMFOTP
25
Seems to me the video is closer to a way for light rail tracks to be shared with cars. How utopian, although I've seen enough of the bus wheel chair ramps get stuck in the "out" position to know that all passenger boarding via a retractable elevator into the road will be a thing that's tough to implement.

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