Seattle Transportation Proposition 1 is passing by a wide margin, with nearly 60% in favor! For the first time in years, Seattle will be able to add significant bus service. This is a victory, but our work is far from done. After years of increasing ridership and service cuts, not to mention increasing fares, Prop 1 is necessary but not enough. Seattle voters have shown our willingness to swallow more regressive taxes to fund our basic infrastructure. Now it’s time for businesses to contribute to the transit system that gets their workers to work and allows the wheels of commerce to turn.
Please use the form below to email City Councilmembers urging them to pass the progressive transit funding measures proposed earlier this year by Councilmembers Sawant and Licata: an Employee Hours Tax on business and a commercial parking fee increase. This revenue can be used to expand Night Owl Service and make much-needed capital improvements to our transit system. Feel free to edit and personalize the following letter as you wish:
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I only take a few buses (D, 44, 43, 16) but those buses are very important to me. Don’t cancel any of them!
Mass transit can reduce congestion and is a step toward avoiding climate change.
Metro’s “We’ll get you there” slogan has to be backed up by the countless Seattle and other major city businesses that profit through Metro’s bringing employees efficiently to work.