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[pearwaldorf]

British Columbia approves $14 BILLION transit expansion plan

That sound you hear is me in the corner sobbing quietly, because I live in a city with shitty, pathetic transit. And yet I should be grateful it's there at all. I never thought that it could get better than buses every three minutes and half-hourly in the wee hours of the morning (or so cow tells me. But I believe him :P). There is no transit funding on the agenda in Olympia this year that I know of. Waaaah.

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[cow.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, this is only through 2020 -- they're already starting to talk about beginning plans for what they'll build in 2020-2030.

As far as Seattle-area, some influential state Democrats have said they won't block Sound Transit if it tries to go to the voters alone (i.e. instead of with roads), but ST hasn't made any noise yet on doing so. Someone needs to jump-start the process.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Ahh, forward planning in a prudent and methodical manner. I forget that there are places in the world that do that.

Now see, last November when all those people handflapped about not getting a chance to vote on transit separately, I didn't think that the peeps down in Olympia were actually dumb enough to not encourage a standalone transit measure. It's really the only solution to the traffic woes in the area and nobody is doing anything about it. (And seriously, charging to drive on 520? Because stressing I-90 and 405 even more is the perfect solution to our problems!)

[cow.livejournal.com]

Charging to drive on 520 is brilliant, actually, as people will drive on it anyway and they need money *somehow* to build a new 520. Better to take some of it from the people who drive their single-occupancy SUVs every single day than to have it all be taxes.

[subduction.livejournal.com]

Yo, it's still not really as great as it sounds. The North Shore, f'rinstance, where my dad lives, still has abysmally shitty public transit despite a population of about 200,000. (And cow is right about the buses, but only for a very very few buses in very limited parts of the city.)

But yes, it WILL be great... in like, fifteen years. :P (Although they're still not adding fuck-all on the North Shore. NOT THAT I'M BITTER or anything.)