Good plan.

God forbid that a government agencyscale back services in response to falling revenues. That would be unthinkable.

Yeah when gas spiked to 4$ a gallon years back, the free WiFi was the first to go. Fare hikes. I can deal with it. What I cant deal with is having to buy a car when the bus pass hits 150-200$ a month (currently paying 108$). Im sure all those drivers who hate mass transit would love to see a massive flux of new drivers on the road making their commute even worse. These idiots will do what they did when we tried to go Monorail and register their cars out of King County, which will make things worse for Metro.

Yes, let's once again balance the budget on the backs of the poor, with a regressive sales-tax increase and new regressive taxes.

In Portland, Tri-Met provides more service, on a smaller budget. Maybe someone at Metro should ask them how they do it..?

@2 they have. @4 tri-met doesn't offer more service. Not even more diverse service. They do have more trams but they do not provide more service system-wide. Also, isn't tri-met private?

It's an alright plan. I can tell you though, there's ways around paying those taxes. Let's say someone has an address outside the city, somewhere they can get mail, and they register their car to that. If you keep raising the taxes here, people are going to pay them in a different city. Again though, I think you've got an alright plan.

Why does the cost of Metro service need to increase from $400 million in 2007 to over $650 million 8 years later? That's QUITE an increase.