Every vote has to have a little something for everyone, otherwise it fails. The biggest, looming example is that gothic horror, the Highway 520 bridge across Lake Washington. I'm sticking with early assessments that we are 12 to 15 years away from an improved 520 unless wind and waves intervene before then. I'd say they are as entrenched as the French were in 1918, maybe better. Sims asked, as if stepping up to the slaughter.
Truth is, nobody has any answers.
Some people talk as if they do, full of calibrations of routes and capacity, but the exact formula for taxes, roads, rail and public support has not yet been found. Keep in mind that on this week of mid-June, there is not a single highway expansion, bridge study, bus plan or transit project that has broad public acceptance, adequate funding, or bipartisan legislative support. James Vesely's column appears Mondays.