Seattle Times: How did Sound Transit’s $15 billion tax request reach $54 billion? Republicans say they were misled
“GOP legislators say they thought they were authorizing $15 billion in taxes when they voted in 2015 to let Sound Transit ask voters to expand transit. How did that become $54 billion? Legislators put no expiration date on the taxes. Now they say they were...
A new ‘trackless electric train’ (aka a bus) starts testing in China
A new approach to trackless transit – trains not constrained to actual tracks, but it instead following virtual ones using tires and an electric powertrain – much like a bus. Read the whole story at...
Seattle Times: Who’s really in the driver’s seat on Puget Sound transit spending?
Seattle Times editorial columnist Brier Dudley says, “Transportation Choices Coalition has evolved from a community group advocating for bike, pedestrian and transit options into a political powerhouse with little transparency that coordinates ballot measures...
O’Ban, Rossi call for investigatory hearings on Sound Transit
Article excerpt: “Sens. Steve O’Ban and Dino Rossi are calling for an investigation into whether Sound Transit engaged in a “systematic effort to confuse and misrepresent the impact and cost of the ST3 authorization to legislators and the public.” In a letter...