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Originally posted by island911
Seriously: sadly, Seattle proper, has been grossly mismanaged. The utopians think that Cars are a bad thing. Roads are seen as enabling cars. So roads must be throttled back with either physical barriers, lane-count reduction, restrictions on street usage, or just let them naturally turn to craters.
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This is pure, unadulterated bull****. The Utopians would very much like to address the transportation problem here but the anti-gubmit forces have been pretty effective. Tim Eyman, conservative hero, has convinced voters that they should expect more and better roads while they nix every funding proposal. Both sides of the aisle are fully aware and freely admit we are a good twenty years behind in transportation infrastructure, but many of them (particularly the ones with an (R) after their name) are afraid to support those projects because of this perception that spending is unnecessary.
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They (utopians) also think that when the voters have a super majority, against a more taxation, that it's just a voter suggetion.
(edit )oh, but Seattle does have REALLY expensive stadiums . ..which the proletariats are encoraged to take the bus to.
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This is true. Since the voters can be relied upon to reject any and all spending requests, gubmit leaders have to decide whether to do nothing (in which case, nothing happens) or something (which would of course be in direct opposition to the voters' decisions). Local voters rejected a new sports stadium, but political leaders built it anyway. And now it's happening again. I can't say whether the stadium projects are a good idea or a bad one (there are arguments favoring both sides of this debate), but voters don't seem to be very supportive.
Fellas, the transportation problem here needs to be solved. Desperately. It will be very painful, now that we are way behind. Traffic congestion due to construction. And the expense. Both will be very painful. But it must happen. Unless of course, you let Tim Eyman do your thinking for you. In which case the solutions can come without expense or inconvenience. Yeah, right.......
Traffic sucks here.