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.
@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%.
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
So at what point, after this passes, will the citizens demand an even bigger price hike to pay for an expensive subway system?
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.
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.
You're better than this.
@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.
Here's how you should vote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAxO-za3…
sick and tired of metros broken promises and irrational spending.
$60 tab increase is criminal.
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.