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September 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM

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Mike McGinn wants more light rail in Seattle, vote within two years

Mike McGinn pledged this morning to bring a plan before voters within two years to expand light rail to more neighborhoods within Seattle.

Neighborhoods that could be connected, he said: West Seattle, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne and Belltown.

"Seattle's values on these things just couldn't be clearer," McGinn said, at a news conference at the Columbia City light-rail station.

McGinn mentioned the possibility of funding the light-rail extensions with car-tab taxes, sales taxes or other taxes.

Sound Transit has a plan to ask voters in 2016 for neighborhood extensions, and a build-out to Everett and Tacoma. McGinn, though, is proposing to hold a Seattle vote sooner on light-rail within the city.

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I'm finding most of these comments hilarious. The simple fact is that Seattle is about 25 years behind other similar cities (San Francisco,... Posted on September 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM by nick_nolte's_mugshot. Jump to comment

@ Copernicus - The $1.9b Capitol Hill-UW light-rail line is being paid for out of Sound Transit's Seattle/Shoreline "subarea" tax... Posted on September 16, 2009 at 11:55 AM by Mike Lindblom. Jump to comment

At least he's not hiding who he is. Of course it's totally impractical and there's no way we can afford it, but hell, we can't... Posted on September 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM by jkapS. Jump to comment

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Mike McGinn wants more light rail in Seattle, vote within two years

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