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Seattle area voters will have an opportunity to fund a major transit expansion this fall.  In late July, Sound Transit board voted 16-2 in favor of a $17.9 billion plan to extend light-rail lines to Lynnwood, Redmond and Federal Way by 2023 and beef up regional bus service and Sounder commuter trains between Lakewood, Tacoma […]

According to Mass Transit Mag: "Secretary Peters said that Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) in May 2008 than in May 2007, according to the Federal Highway Administration data. This is the largest drop in VMT for any May, which typically reflects increased traffic due to Memorial Day vacations and the beginning of

Did you know . . .        that China has already spent $42 billion to host the Olympic Games, most of the spending going toward roads, subways and airports. According to Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Wall Street Journal:  "In order to accommodate the 300 sporting events, 16,000 athletes and coaches, and more

Did you know . . .        that China has already spent $42 billion to host the Olympic Games, most of the spending going toward roads, subways and airports. According to Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Wall Street Journal:  "In order to accommodate the 300 sporting events, 16,000 athletes and coaches, and more

"The World Is Flat" author, Thomas Friedman, wrote a fantastic op-ed piece in the New York Times, the Grand Rapids Press and probably elsewhere.  Most powerfully, he said: “When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction