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Article: LIGHT RAIL CLAIMS MAY BE OFF-TRACK P-I ANALYSIS RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT SOUND TRANSIT'S PR MESSAGE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 11, 2001
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As Sound Transit prepared for today's vote on whether to move forward with light rail, agency leaders vowed to come clean, start fresh, and win back public trust and support.
Yet much of the agency's public-relations message is still misleading, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer analysis shows.
Sound Transit held an open house this week to promote its 21-mile rail project linking SeaTac with Seattle. On billboard-sized displays, the agency ignored an independent poll that showed less popular support for its project than its own poll; used statistically questionable ridership comparisons; misrepresented the federal money at stake; promised more rail service ...