Faster Transit, Safer Streets

Proposition 1 is a down payment on becoming a 21st Century great American city.  Designed by a citizen panel, Proposition 1 will connect our neighborhoods with fast, reliable transit service, double our annual investment in sidewalks, nearly double the number of neighborhood repaving projects we do every year, and expand family-friendly bicycle infrastructure.  It’s thousands of smart, simple improvements that will make our transportation system work better for everyone.

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Why Prop 1

Four decades ago Seattle could have made the decision to become the next great American city, but we made the wrong choice when we failed to pass the Forward Thrust ballot measures.  We didn’t make the investments necessary to become a city where citizens have the freedom to safely take transit, walk, bike or drive to get where they need to go.  As a result, we’ve struggled through four decades of political paralysis and gridlock, fiercely battling over every incremental transportation improvement.

Making matters worse for Seattle, a decade’s worth of Tim Eyman-backed state initiatives have eliminated many traditional transportation funding sources, leaving our transportation system in a state of disrepair and our city with few options to fund necessary investments like improving transit and filling potholes.

Seattle faces a clear choice.  We can choose to build a transportation system that will make our city work for our future by voting yes on Proposition 1.  Or we can choose to struggle through another four decades with inadequate infrastructure where it’s not safe for our kids to walk or bike to school, crossing the street is a life-threatening event, it’s bone-jarring to drive or ride down our pothole-riddled roads and traveling from one neighborhood to another on transit takes half the day, if you can get there at all.

Proposition 1 is a down payment on becoming a 21st Century great American city.  Designed by a citizen panel, Proposition 1 will connect our neighborhoods with fast, reliable transit service, double our annual investment in sidewalks, nearly double the number of neighborhood repaving projects we do every year, and expand family-friendly bicycle infrastructure.  It’s thousands of smart, simple improvements that will make our transportation system work better for everyone.

Proposition 1 is our opportunity to move beyond the bad decisions of the past and build a city where we can rely on the bus to get us to daycare and pick up our kids on time, the roads are smooth, we can safely cross the street to get to the neighborhood park, and our kids can walk or ride their bikes to school.

That’s why Proposition1 has united our city and is endorsed by a diverse coalition of over 45 social justice, environmental, community, labor and business organizations and over 1,100 Seattle residents.  It’s why Proposition 1 is endorsed by people who would lie down in front of the tunnel boring machine and by people who would dig the tunnel with their own hands.  It’s why Proposition 1 is endorsed by the Mayor and the entire City Council.

We are united in working together to pass Proposition 1 so Seattle can start becoming a 21st Century great American city.  We can’t afford another four decades of gridlock, political paralysis, and petty fights over incremental transportation improvements.

Please join us in voting YES on Proposition 1. 

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