Initial returns tallied Tuesday night showed the measure was failing 55 percent to 45 percent.
But McGinn, too, pointed at Olympia as the source of the problem — and Republican state senators whose feet are, literally, planted in concrete.
“When I met with Senate Republican leaders, they told me bluntly:
We’re going to starve transit until you come to the table and support
more highways,” McGinn said. “It is clear that our needs have been held
hostage to new highway projects. This makes absolutely no sense
fiscally, economically or environmentally.”
Metro has outlined prospective cuts, from suburban feeder lines to
much-used bus lines serving such Seattle neighborhoods as the Central
Area, Leschi and Madrona.
Supporters have argued that Metro carries 400,000 riders each day and
is vital in transporting people to work and to colleges and
universities in the Seattle area. Service from the Northgate area to
the University of Washington is one of the routes facing cuts.
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(Tax payers have had enough and I can't say I blame them)
1 comment:
Why is this a surprise? This is still a car country.
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