King County is prosperous because of investments in things like bus service and roads

That explains it then. We haven't built a single new highway even with a 60% population increase and we spend billions on an inadequate Lionel choo choo and cut the bus service.

Sorry, we spent the bus money building a couple new trollies.

I dont know why we even voted in the rapid ride system, its basically a joke. Its exactly the same route, only red and with fewer stops at a cost of 50 million? A friend from the bus stop in Overlake decided to take the one from Crossroads to downtown Bellevue and boy was she pissed, rapid ride is just a bad idea that voters were sold. Good luck at selling the voters inner city light rail or a subway system.

Chances are Metro will eliminate commuter routes, the ones that run early morning and late afternoon, thus forcing many people back into their cars.

It's almost as if a lot of this went down a deep dark hole just south of the Aurora Bridge, passing near Pike Place Market.

Sorry, Rapid Ride cost 194 million to setup, with 2/3rd of that paid for by the federal government. It only cost us local citizens 65 million.

As someone who doesn't own nor drive a car and 100% dependent on the bus, Rapid Ride is a staggering waste of tax payer money.

Metro claimed the previous new funding would add tons of route hours and didn't yet raised salaries to the roof...fuck em. Fuck them deep and hard.

well, you're all going to get your wish because Rodney Tom won't get shit passed, let alone anything for Seattle.

Not to be too harsh to @8, but he or she is one of the reasons we're consistently being asked to pay more to continue running inefficient service that doesn't work.

Did you not notice, when you chose to "live where you live" because of the 25, that the 25 barely runs hourly, that it doesn't exist at night or on the weekend, and that absolutely no one rides it when it does run, because Montlake is full of people who have no interest in participating in larger civic life in that way?

Even if Metro were rolling in cash, the 25 has no reason to exist. What you are "supposed" to do -- what anyone in a similar situation in a city without a convoluted, back-assward transit system would do -- is to walk a whopping 10 minutes to any of the half-dozen routes that run a million times more frequently than the 25: the 70, 66, or 49 to the west, the 43 and 48 to the east. All of which have the demand to be made even better, if only we weren't wasting gobs of money on empty buses like the 25.

"Protect my empty, crappy bus (and never improve the system as a whole)" is about the worst reason you can give for perpetual supplementary funding begs.

#8, move. Seattle transit fuckwits, pay your own way. Goldy, go on a diet.

My criticisms of @8's comments should in no way be conflated with the industrial-grade cluelessness of the festering boil on the ass of society known as Mister G... er, sorry, as "Unbrainwashed".

#10, are you bitter that Montlake is full of people who own cars? If so, why? Jealous? Does it scorch your cojones to know that more Seattle households have three cars than have no cars?

I'm done with you, fuckwit.

The east side is full of empty busses.

I've been a bus rider for a good part of the past 11 years and, short of the 243, have not ridden a single one of these listed.

When I moved to Seattle in 1995 (before some of you were born) Metro was rated in either the top 5 or maybe it was top 10 transit agencies in the US. (Someone will correct me on that) I was able to avoid buying a new car when I sold the Accord I had in College in 1997 and was able to get around easily with Metro, Flex-Car (then ZipCar) as well as the occasional cab ride.

But over the past few years the libertarian mindset of a huge portion of the state is slowly making it harder for anyone to try an live a greener, and more sustainable life, buy using public transit or hell, even bike lanes seem to be some commie plot according to these freaks in Olympia.

May just be time to buy a car and do my part to make Earth a little less habitable for future generations. I mean in America it's ME first.

#14, fine, but what really matters is that I'm done paying your way. Yer on yer own, Seattle fuckwits. This should be good.

#16 -

Let me make sure I've got this straight.

What you're really saying is that even if driving a lone rider across the water costs $500, that's ok because it's the 'green' thing to do(When it is actually horribly inefficient from more than just a financial standpoint)?

You may be utilizing the term 'libertarian' as a misnomer for 'sane'.

#16, in 2001, WA State and its local governments spent $38,464 per person. In 2012, WA State and its local governments spent $51,989 per person.

http://tinyurl.com/waspendg

I'll do the arithmetic for you, seeing as how Seattle fuckwits tend to be challenged in that department. Per-person spending rose 35% in that 10-year period. Ah, but what about inflation between 2001 and 2011? Check the link below. It was 27%.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

You call that "the libertarian mindset?" I call you one more stupid Seattle fuckwit is what I call you. Of course, I know you and your fellow fuckwits will find a way to ignore the facts. You are no different than Sarah Palin. When facts conflict with your faith, either one of you will always ignore the facts.

@18 and 19, excuse me for not taking people seriously who are to cowardly to have their activity public on Slog or who just signed up for Slog a little over a week ago.

You guys are just the typical right wing trolls who happened to register for a profile so we all have to read your incoherent ramblings.

Now do us all a favor and go back to your reading of Ayn Rand and her celebration of rape

#16/20, thanks for doing exactly what I predicted. Presented with facts, the Seattle fuckwit will ignore the facts and instead attack the presenter of the facts.

Because we all know that the date that you finally were bored enough to sign up for a forum account constitutes such a huge amount of your viability in the real world.

I'm not so certain how my ground level experience has anything do my political affiliations, but I'll never be in favor of busses driving around with no one on them.

Have fun going extinct!

Now do us all a favor and go back to your reading of Ayn Rand and her celebration of rape

Roark! Do me right here in the shadow of that nasty skyscraper! Pay me in gold!

- Ayn

Yes, and no.