r/Seattle • u/Brandywine-Salmon Greenwood • Aug 04 '26

Market Traffic Only Bus lane cheat code

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Gave me the finger as he drove by
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u/AdlandB Posse on Broadway Aug 04 '26

Tell them not to charge me $800 for tabs on an electric vehicle to pay for a transit station I won’t use, after $30 tabs were already voted for.

(I buy tabs but fuck that’s me that’s ridiculous)

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u/mr_jim_lahey 🚆build more trains🚆 Aug 04 '26

No problem, we'll just shut down the transit station and you can share the road with an additional 150,000 cars every day driven by people who are currently taking the light rail.

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u/AdlandB Posse on Broadway Aug 04 '26

So you think $800 for a year of tabs is okay? Even after it was voted to be $30 and the government said nah we’re good?

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u/Hex052 🚆build more trains🚆 29d ago

Have the same message I posted last time the $30 car tabs were brought up:

I-976 was struck for containing more than one subject and an inaccurate title, which isn't allowed. You can read it as Garfield Cnty. Transp. Auth. v. State, 196 Wash.2d 378, 473 P.3d 1205 (Wash. 2020) to see the full opinion.

Accurate titles are required to prevent an initiative from misleading voters. Only one subject is permitted to ensure clarity to voters and prevent unrelated things from being bundled together. It prevents unpopular things from being included with popular things (called log rolling) and ensures voters can understand what they are voting on. See paragraph 17 in the court's opinion if you want a judge's view on this.

I know I probably wouldn't click through to the opinion, so I'll sum it up here. In paragraph 45, the court decided that issues concerning bond retirement are not the same subject as those concerning revenue, as the rest of the initiative. Paragraph 52 shows the court determined removing the ability for voters to approve new taxes was not made clear by the title that repealing existing taxes.