Washington Policy
Center’s Ambiguous East Link Policy
The WPC describes their
organization as “an independent, non-partisan think tank promoting sound public
policy based on free-market solutions”. It includes the WPC Center for Transportation that “researches
and analyzes the best practices for relieving traffic congestion by recapturing
a vision of a system based on freedom of movement”.
They seemed like an
organization that would be interested in my ST/East Link concerns so I sent
them several emails detailing these concerns. My last effort to garner their support was the following
email I sent to the WPC board members on 8/15.
Dear Washington Policy
Center,
Your recent letter
asking for contributions to support your Center for Transportation efforts
prompted me to respond. You claim to be “promoting better, more
responsible transportation policy” while apparently completely oblivious to the
fact that Sound Transit and the WSDOT are attempting to perpetrate a
monumentally flawed East Link light rail system.
The failure of my
past efforts to expose these problems, which included several emails to the
WPC, led me to file as a candidate for Position No 1 in the 48th
Legislative District. I did so to use the Voters’ Pamphlet to attract
voters to my blog, http://stopeastlinknow.blogspot.com.
I would hope you consider it
worthy of some study.
Respectively,
Bill Hirt Candidate for Pos No 1
48th District.
While they later used
the recent State audit (see my 11/06 post for my audit critique) to advocate
for changes to Sound Transit and pointing out unrealistic ST ridership
forecasts, they never responded with any public criticism of the ST East Link
light rail project.
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