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Article: SOUND TRANSIT'S LIGHT RAIL PLAN MAY CUT TRAFFIC 30% STUDY REVIEWS $22 BILLION PROPOSAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 11, 2008
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Byline: LARRY LANGE P-I reporter
Sound Transit's proposed $22 billion light rail expansion plan could cut car and truck travel as much as 30 percent, reduce carbon dioxide pollution by nearly 100,000 tons a year and save consumers $41 million annually in reduced fuel costs if voters approve the plan and commuters switch to transit, according to a new study.
A spokesman for the pro-expansion Proposition 1 campaign said the study by Sound Transit consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff and the Victoria Transport Policy Institute will help win voter approval of the plan.
"One thing that really struck me is, when people get a sense of the greenhouse gas ...