WA: Party Lines Blur at Transportation Rally

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WA: Party Lines Blur at Transportation Rally

Jordan Schrader
Source: The News Tribune
Created: May 21, 2013


At least three Republican state lawmakers rallied Monday on the Capitol steps with backers of a gas tax and fee increase that would pay for roads, ferries, mass transit and other transportation improvements.

Democrats such as House Transportation Committee Chairwoman Judy Clibborn, Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Rep. Denny Heck want it approved in the Legislature this year. The only action so far has been a party-line vote in Clibborn's committee. But organizers promoted the rally's bipartisan flavor.

Rep. Hans Zeiger and Sen. Bruce Dammeier, two GOP advocates of extending state Route 167 from their hometown of Puyallup to the Port of Tacoma, spoke to the crowd of a couple hundred people, many of them union workers.

Zeiger, 28, told the advocates that when he talks about finishing SR 167, people laugh and tell him, "They've been talking about that since before you were born." ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/10946442/wa-party-lines-blur-at-transportation-rally

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1. Yes

I live in the Seattle-Tacoma megopolis and the roads have just gotten worst and way more congested in the past 10-15 years.