In this oped from the Sierra Club in the TNT, Mike O'Brien and Bliss Moore suggest its time for a little
spring cleaning:
The public debate on transportation is now in the “messy” stage. With RTID’s failure at the polls last November, we threw out highway expansion as the answer to our congestion problems.
Note to the Sierra Club: RTID only comprised between 10%-30% of Prop 1....so referring to Prop 1, as RTID is misleading and a veiled attempt to protect Sound Transit. Furthermore, Prop 1 did not fail because of the roads piece. Polling shows that Prop 1 failed because of costs and it didn't relieve congestion.
As long as policy decisions are made on spin and delusional assumptions, voters will continue rejecting packages that don't link spending to congestion relief.
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