Metro bus funding editorial
Interesting opinion piece in the PI yesterday: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/260202_metrobus21.html
Discusses the funding problems Metro bus is facing as the demands for more service hours (due to rapidly increasing ridership — this is good!) outstrip the funds available to Metro to increase service hours. According to the article, it mostly stems back to the 1999 repeal of the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) with Tim Eyman’s I-695 initiative.
Interesting history! Being, still, relatively new to Washington State, it never ceases to amaze me some of the crazy history we have here in this state. Funding is a problem everywhere, but we seem to do some short-sighted stuff here. I’m just glad we shot down (similarly dangerous) initiative I-912 last November!
