As reported here, the State legislature wants to combine regional transportation agencies in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, into one huge monolithic agency, with the House version having Sound Transit taking over. This is the agency that has squandered billions of dollars; changed plans in mid-stream; chose a light rail gauge that was incompatible with what was originally installed in the Metro tunnel in Seattle, requiring that the tunnel be closed for two years so they can rip up the installed tracks to install new tracks (this work is in progress now); that is building a light rail line that was originally supposed to go all the way to SeaTac Airport (and has been called the light rail line to nowhere), but will now end short of that, requiring people to take shuttle buses to get to the airport.
Currently, the largest state bureaucracy is the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which is the most arrogant, inefficient, agency in the state. Creating another huge bureaucracy would do nothing to alleviate the transportation problems in the King, Pierce, and Snohomish County region as it is a proven fact that the larger a government bureaucracy is, the less efficient it is, contrary to the "pie-in-the-sky" wishes of the Dems.
But, since our legislature and governors mansion are dominated by Dems - who just love "big government" - I'm not really that surprised that they want to do this.
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