Ron is one elected official. The campaign has the support of the Gov, Patty Murray, Ed Murray, Dow Constantine and many others. It is too bad that Ron is opposing 50 miles if new light rail.

Took Metro home tonight. No suprise, my bus was stuck in traffic.

I want reliable and fast transit. I want light rail.I'll vote yes in November

I heard the Mayor on KIRO today saying he supports the plan.

Too bad Ron is for more buses stuck in traffic.

When you are the head of the bus agency no wonder you aren't in the front of the line champion for more light rail.

Those sexy, reliable trains are going to make Ron's slow, smelly, stuck in traffic buses look bad.

I think Ron has transit envy.

I think the YES campaign just got a 5% boost in the suburbs!!

Anybody who rides the bus today, knows Prop 1 promises a new world--but not for twenty years. Let's fix bus service, now, not wait forever....I was for Transit Now last year. Let's defeat Prop 1, turn Sound Transit over to Metro Transit, and start getting the job done on time, and under budget.

Bus Rapid Transit on freeway HOT and arterial bus-only lanes won't get caught in traffic, and, for a fraction of the Roads & Transit (Prop 1) cost of $157 Billion all-in (!), can provide transit mobility to the entire metro Puget Sound region ... which R&T, if passed, WOULD'NT do. Maybe Sims has figured this out. There **is** a better way.

No more new taxes. I will be voting NO on the simple fact that they want to increase sales tax. When will this state quit asking the poor and disadvantaged to pay? We already have one of the highest sales taxes in the country and adding more to it at this point is simply criminal. If this was just an increase for license tabs I would support it but not with a sales tax invovled. Sound Transit has squandered our dollars for more than a decade. It took them nearly 10 years to start building light rail and then its original set-up was greatly reduced. Combine that with the fact the the north end where I live will be ignored for another decade seals my vote for no.

agree with Above. The Government gets more than too much of MY money as it is. Giving government more money just makes politicians richer, not our lives any better.

The politicos who voted to spend $50 million per mile to build a trolley from nowhere to nowhere, and the morons who will spend more than that to build a subway tunnel to a football stadium (a mile away from the center of the UW campus) cannot be trusted to spend billions on their future transit megalomania. VOTE NO if you have any commmon sense.

King, Snohomish and Pierce Counties are to blame for the road / transit dilemma. Each county has allowed unbridled growth without developing the necessary infrastructure as the land was mowed down. Maybe the counties and the developers should have thought this through prior to turning a beautiful area into a concrete nightmare!

Yada, yada, yada... All I can see is a boondogle like Sound Transit 1. If you want to resolve traffic issues spread out businesses to areas outside of Seattle and the east side. I understand there is penty of office space in Tacoma/Olympia. With all the technology avaiable today. Why not decentralzie and spread the wealth around the whole state. Quite trying to pack everything into one area. Very easy concept and easy to implement. The whole states economy would benefit.

Ron is a politician. He has good reasons for a neutral stance in a public forum, a "pro" stance in KIRO, and a "not so sure" stance in a conservative forum. He is waiting out the storm. All of the comments above (except those by Sound Transit officials writing in to show some support from somewhere) are against the government lunacy. Ron would rather have a King County bureaucracy than an independent Sound Transit bureaucracy. ST is not under his control. Like all politicians, he is testing the winds before he commits and, if it's a big, liberal, tax-and-spend program he DOESN'T support, it must not be a favorable wind!

I am pro-mass transit and am not afraid of paying for it with new taxes. I also take the bus from the east side to work in Seattle everyday. I think Sound Transit is not competent and/or responsible enought to make transit decisions that cost more that a few million per year. The I-90 light rail is a good example. Why tear up a perfectly good bridge (I90) when the state is in the process of building a new 520 bridge? Let's build the new bridge with the light rail instead. Why build a light rail to SEATAC that takes longer than the present bus service? Because ST worships light rail it can't see the shortcomings of the project. Why build a light rail at all? The Light Rail is being sold as a (San Francisco) BART but in fact it will be as slow as those miserable trolleys they use in San Francisco city and suburbs. I think we'd better pick our projects more carefully than Sound Transit is at the monment.