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June 23, 2008 8:22 AM
Former DOT chief argues against light rail
Posted by David Postman
Doug MacDonald, the former secretary of the Department of Transportation, says Sound Transit's expansion plans would cost a lot but do little to untangle the region's transportation mess. Writing at Crosscut, in the first of three pieces, MacDonald says ST's tax proposal would create a "river of new money ... flowing to the board of directors for decades."
Don't hold your breath to see new transportation services from these projects anytime soon. Most of the new projects would not go into service until 2020, when today's four-county regional population is expected to have grown by an additional half million people, from today's 3.6 million.Nevertheless, some of those eventual projects certainly will be big - in dollar cost, anyway! ...
At the same time, they will — in terms of contributing to regional transit needs — also be very small.
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