Sound Transit will continue to collect car-tab taxes but avoid
suing for now to overturn Tim Eyman’s tax-cutting Initiative 976,
approved by voters statewide this month.
That strategy emerged from a transit-board meeting Thursday
in which Eyman said he will run for governor against Democratic
incumbent Jay Inslee, only to have the microphone cut off
by transit-board Chairman John Marchione, who cited a board
rule against campaign speeches in public-comment sessions.
Marchione emphasized that 53% of voters within the transit district
sided for keeping the car-tab taxes and against I-976. That
followed 54% district support in the Sound Transit 3 (ST3)
balloting in 2016 to impose the tax increase.
Significant cuts would delay projects to “provide our citizens with a
path out of ever-worsening congestion,” he said, “that pollutes our air
and warms our planet.”
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