Surface Solution Gaining Traction!

[maxsolomon]

free the gas tax money from the chains of maintained capacity! or use the 2 billion to fix the fuck out of the spokane st. viaduct & i-5 through the retarded 1-lane seneca street bottleneck. add Ron Sims to this list.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/306242_viaduct06.html

OLYMPIA -- A group of Seattle lawmakers said Monday that it's time to formally reopen discussion of the option for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct that isn't on this month's ballot.

They want new legislation that would raise the possibility of replacing the viaduct with surface street and transit improvements, essentially by reframing the objective.

As it stands, more than $2 billion of state gas tax money set aside for the viaduct can be spent only on options that at least maintain the viaduct's 110,000- vehicle-a-day capacity.

Seattle Reps. Jim McIntire, Jamie Pedersen, Joe McDermott and Eric Pettigrew would like the goal to be maintaining capacity for moving people and goods -- not just vehicles.