What's next after the transportation listening sessions?

Some interesting items about Monday's transportation listening session.

http://wemovems.blogspot.com/2013/10/seattle-speaks-up-to-keepusmoving.html


A serious blog as filing cabinet notes from the Twittervers item from my own blog
http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2013/10/seattle-transportation-listening.html
This item includes several media reports and a link to TVW of the whole hearing.
I myself got called to testify somewhere about 2:40 into the tape about 3 speakers after Tim Eyman.


Two really great statements, one specifically from someone served by the Special Needs Transportation Fund.

Important things I heard:
Senator Eide "There are no Democrat Roads, there are no Republican roads. There are Washington roads."

Lots of finish this segment, build that segment, fund these amenities, take care of shipping....

Mentioning the proposal to add $100 million definitely falls into the category of "spend money here." But testifying as a member of the WA Council of the Blind Environmental Access Committee, it gave me a nice way to talk about the whole state: WCB includes people who depend on the bus in urban areas as well as people for whom if there is any public transportation available at all, it is likely something funded by the Special Needs transportation fund. Transit is every bit as much a part of the WA transportation infrastructure as roads. We need a balanced package of roads, transit. We need state level funding, a stable source, and we need options for local revenue to meet needs it's not reasonable to expect the state to meet.

The UW spoke about multimodal access to the campus
Investment: we need to INVEST

NO ONE likes taxes. People have been having trouble working together about transportation planning and transportation funding since long before Tim Eyman started hating on the MVET.



Words / concepts I did not hear or heard only faintly:

shared responsibility

working TOGETHER

how exactly we propose to PAY for all the things everyone comes asking for.

Any mention of what next:
   --The comments submitted online are public record. How can members of the public review them?
   --What will happen and how can members of the public participate in crafting whatever the next legislative steps are?
   --What must King county doand do as soon as possible to get authority to tax ourselves to avoid 17% cuts in the bus system?

#WATranspo  #WAleg #keepusmoving #savemetronow

Esoteric Good news: I asked that copies of any WSDOT Powerpoints (or anyone else's to be made available online before the hearing. The good news, I guess, no Powerpoints. I did not  ask after the fact for Powerpoints from previous hearings.