Got an email earlier this evening (5:02PM to be exact) from our Department of Transportation announcing this:
Statewide Public Transportation Plan
The draft Washington State Public Transportation Plan (pdf 7.26 mb) is a blueprint to help guide decisions and integrate all modes of public transportation to better meet our needs over the next 20 years.
The people of Washington are invited to help! The draft of the plan will be available at meetings in local communities all over the state through the end of 2015. Please take a look at the meeting itinerary to find out when meetings will be held near you. This itinerary will be updated frequently as more meetings are scheduled.
I am interested in this - the Transportation Plan is the usual 103 page document filled with bland bureaucratese. I go to take a look at the schedule of meetings:
Happy happy joy joy - the only meeting in my area is tomorrow AM. The initial meeting in Seattle started over seven hours before the email was sent out. They say that they are going to schedule additional meetings but when will these be announced - the same sort of scheduling. This reeks of a shoe-in for some preferred contractors and exclusion for the general public.
These people work for us - they need to be reminded of this. I lived in Seattle during the monorail fiasco (here, here and here). I do not want to be stuck paying more taxes for something being built for the sole benefit of people in Bellingham or Seattle.
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