Today, a countywide coalition–made up of business, labor, education, and advocacy groups–called for Olympia to take action on essential local and statewide transportation funding. From the press release:
“We’ve significantly reduced Metro’s labor, operating, and capital costs; raised fares several times; and made our transit system substantially more efficient and productive, but without additional revenue options, we cannot sustain our transit system. The people of King County will face gridlock and fewer, far more expensive options for getting to work. Sustaining funding for Metro Transit is critical to maintaining the strength of our regional and statewide economy” said Councilmember Larry Phillips, Chair of the Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee.
“Behind the need to invest in our transit system are real riders – real people – who will be hurt if efforts are unsuccessful,” said Josh Kavanagh, Director of Transportation at the University of Washington. “This includes the thousands of students in King County – 37% – who rely on the bus to get to school every day. These are our future workers, and the people who will be directly hurt by transportation cuts if solutions aren’t found.”
Do you part to keep King County moving by contacting your legislators and asking them to support local options for transit. Click here to send a letter to your legislators now.
