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Ferries and WSP are both part of the budget that will receive 90% of the funds. I find it interesting that no one is able to make an argument against the initiative based on fact but rather resort to blaming the contributors. How is your mileage at 30 mph? I have done the calculations and my truck would use just over half as much fuel if I were traveling at 55 or better. That alone would keep me from burning over 500 gallons of fuel each year. To me that spells less polution and its associated problems. If one were to extrapolate that into the 500,000 commuters (in cars) each day in the greater puget sound area it soon adds up to 250,000,000 gallons of fuel each year wasted. (did the math in my head but I think thats the number) If you really want to do something for the earth, make a vote in favor of I-745. If you must try to use emotion to sway voters please at least make an effort to avoid the class envy schtick. It's getting to be a very tired message. Perhaps you would prefer to see all of those construction workers in the soup lines. Gov't projects also pay prevailing wages (a $5 to $10 per hour bonus for some) and those working stiffs at the asphalt company just don't deserve that because of a maximum 5% of the commuters??????? Really going to bat for the working man there. Oh the hypocrisy!!!! If mass transit is such a perfect model and there is such a huge demand why aren't there hundreds of fat cat republican businessmen begging for the chance to build and run a system. I'll tell you why, because no one wants it and no one will use it. The right NEVER misses a chance to make a buck, correct? So where are they now???? The fact is that the only person to ever run a private mass transit system at a profit in the US was Walt Disney and the left has continually balked at the idea of private business expanding and running a mag-lev monorail in the greater seattle area. The one time someone tried to ease traffic on his own dime and the lefties crushed him. The politicos don't gain any power if someone does it on their own. I don't see too many of you on the left tossing out the contributors names on your man Gores list either. Perhaps you folks just enjoy being stuck in traffic for an hour before and after work but I would think that time could be better spent tying leaders or flies.