The State Legislature has not yet passed a transportation plan, or anything else. The special session ended today. Tomorrow they will begin an unprecedented second special session.
Just today the Senate transportation committee released an awful new proposal for a transportation plan. It removes the over $400 million that the House proposal slated for investment in public transit.
And most importantly for King County Metro: whereas the House plan gives us a progressive Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) transit funding option for King County, the Senate plan instead includes an option to raise the regressive sales tax by another 0.3% – and this authority would last for only five years.
You can email your legislators from the website of Transportation for Washington here.
Sales tax increase sound more just to me. It will mean that the people who use Transit will have to help pay for it.