Seattle's new posting of data on the city's web site points to better services, technological possibilities, and even new relationships. Citizens may have more reasons to trust an open, transparent government.
Just putting tolls on the Evergreen Point Bridge is not going to cut it. Instead, the region needs to apply tolls all along the 520 corridor and broadly across our highway system. Here's an encouraging progress report.
Transit can't solve the problem, and we can't afford to build enough highways. So modern tolling, with prices varied by demand, will be necessary. Here's a look at how the Legislature is quietly laying the political and conceptual groundwork.
With state transportation agencies too strapped to fix bridges and roads, and union pension funds looking for investments, the P3 idea is spreading. Maybe even to a wary West Coast?
The vehicle mileage tax, taxing vehicles by miles traveled, is gaining speed in Congress, but Team Obama is in the slow lane.
