If, for example, you had some actual evidence that the extra transit service that is to be initiated in 2018 when the tunnel is opened is now off the table, I think we would all be interested in hearing that.

I simply didn’t find the anti-tunnel rant to be a very convincing follow-on to a shortfall in collecting sales tax and, as nobody else had done so, presented an alternate viewpoint.

http://hugeasscity.com/2009/03/14/a-post-about-something-inspiring-no-really/

http://hugeasscity.com/2009/01/30/close-the-schools-dig-the-tunnel-redux/

Let’s see, Dan, where does your original post address the fact that gas taxes are mandated to be spent only on roads- oh, that’s right- nowhere.

I would, in fact, get riled if you served up weak tea like “calling into question the sanity” of that law. The law isn’t just nuts, it’s criminally insane and has been used to destroy western Washington, killing the salmon and paving over the farms that once fed us. I am so beyond “questioning the sanity” that you don’t even want to hear what I would say about that.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled preconceptions.

I mean, seriously, the county transit cuts simply reflect the fact that buses are expensive to run. They require drivers, they need fuel. I feel a very high degree of certainty that a closer look at the cuts would show they are targeting wage and fuel costs.

Which is to say, the transit proposed for the tunnel option is no more dead or alive than it ever was.

And I feel equally high certainty that the money the state would pay for a tunnel comes from gas tax revenues, which is to say, it’s not going to pay for bus drivers and bus fuel anyway. If Seattle really doesn’t want a tunnel, every county in the state would be happy to take a slice for their slowly progressing part of the state highway system.

So, what is the point of a post composed of wishes if you don’t include the pony?