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Initiative campaigns: where's the truth?
An encounter with one signature gatherer revolves around a clearly untrue assertion. That's only part of the problem for voters in trying to know what a ballot measure means.
Matt Rosenberg
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Puget Sound foot ferries migrate to San Francisco
The Bay Area makes use of our former foot ferries, and then some, all paid for by tolls.
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Time for a bus-fare reality check
King County's Metro Transit service is under pressure from a surge in ridership and higher fuel costs. There are solutions to these problems, but they aren't painless, says this transportation analyst. Among other things, riders should be paying more — a lot more — and Metro should consider privatiz
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How to pay for the roads still traveled
Notwithstanding increasing mass transit ridership and more prudent use of cars, automobiles will dominate U.S. transportation for decades to come. So how do we pay for roads? Variable tolling is one answer, and in the age of GPS the logical next step should also be explored: a fee on miles traveled
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A state agency eyes public-private transportation funding
No less than the Washington State Investment Board, which oversees public pensions, is giving serious consideration to government-business partnerships to make infrastructure improvements. Experts identify several possibilities, including the Highway 520 bridge rebuild, I-5 across the Columbia River