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Article: FACTS BELIE SOUND TRANSIT CLAIM.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 21, 2002
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Byline: TOM HELLER AND JOHN NILESLight rail opponents
Throughout the Initiative 776 campaign, members of the Sound Transit board wailed about cutbacks in transit services that would result from the elimination of the revenue from the motor vehicle excise tax. Undoubtedly, those statements influenced voters.
Nonetheless, the initiative passed.
After the vote Sound Transit board members changed their tune. What they emphasized before Election Day would happen is something different after Election Day. Indeed, Sound Transit - joined by the state Department of Licensing and the attorney general - has now declared I-776 simply cannot be ...