The Sugary Taste of Wasted Tax Dollars
Folks like Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt don’t care what the voters tell him when it comes to that multi-billion dollar boondoggle bridge over the Columbia river.
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Last
week, folks in Clark county turned down funding for light rail operations. Yet Leavitt told me yesterday that he doesn't take that as a “no” vote on rail. Instead he says we have to have efficient transportation.
I pointed out to him that rail is insanely
expensive…you can buy ten buses for the cost of one train car, the tracks go
for as much as 200-million a mile, and the thing travels at an average speed of
19 miles an hour. Leavitt admits that’s
not very efficient but he’s not backing down.
He campaigned for office with a promise to oppose tolls on the
interstate five bridge, yet the rail bridge over the Columbia requires tolls
that are allowed to go to 8 bucks per crossing, each way…a crippling cost for
daily commuters.
Doesn't matter. Leavitt drank the CRC Kool-Aid and he’s not
turning back...
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