But I am Just Another Voice

Pedestrian-only core.

Park-and-ride satellite areas.

Streetcars. 

Know what? A lot of us poor people are stuck driving for a whole bunch of reasons. Bus routes stop running too soon or don't go to job sites. Did you know there is no service to Mottman industrial park? Buses either get us to a site and hour early or five minutes late. Ever tried lugging home groceries for four on an over-crowded bus?

Bikes are cool if your healthy enough to ride one during the five months a year the weather co-operates.

Bert, just how would a progressive gas tax work? Show a IRS return at the pump? Keep receipts and use them as a deduction when filing? That could address Federal gas taxes but such proposals are irrelevent when it comes to Washington State gas and car taxes because Washington state does not base taxation on income.

I doubt a parking garage, an issue on which I'm still undecided, would do much more than bankrupt the PBIA w/out taxes from the general fund, but if it would be a piece of making downtown much more pedestrian friendly then it might be a good investment. Either way cars will be involved. 

I guess what's wadding my unmentionalbles this morning is the young, healthy and decidedly non-blue collar bias toward the use of cars. I support everyone doing everything to minimize their use of cars (more open roads for me :) ) but what I've read so far on transportation are not pratical now or in the near term future for most Olympians. One thing I love about Olyblog are people questioning assumptions and visualizing better futures. What seems to be lacking are concrete proposals to reach those progressive goals.