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Statement
For:
People
rely on Intercity Transit
to get to work, medical appointments, school, and shopping.
People who can’t drive, wheelchair users, people wanting to
protect the environment and drivers appreciating how transit
reduces congestion: IT Proposition One
is important for everyone.
Responding
to tax control initiatives, IT cut staff
35%, shrunk the service area, and raised fares. Even with 20%
improved efficiency, IT uses reserve funds
for existing service. When reserves run out in late 2003, we’ll
need another 30% service cut.
Proposition One adds 3¢ to
a $10 purchase in IT’s service area. 3 pennies
on $10 will stop service cuts, stabilize funding and open the
door to more buses on popular routes.
Transit
systems in eleven other counties, including Grays Harbor, Mason
and Pierce, have already approved measures like Proposition
One. 3 pennies on $10 assures mobility alternatives for
Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater and Yelm. Vote “Yes!” Keep IT Moving!
Voters’
Pamphlet statement prepared by: Citizens for Better Transit
– Larry Watkinson and Joan Cullen, Co-Chairs, Evalyn Poff and
Mike Sharar.
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No Statement
Against:
No
one could be found to write a statement against the Intercity
Transit Proposition 1.
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Explanatory Statement
Intercity Transit provides public transportation services to
Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Yelm and some portions of unincorporated
Thurston County. In 2000, Intercity Transit had to cut 39% of
its fixed route transit services because the Motor Vehicle Excise
Tax, a primary source of funding, was eliminated. This Proposition
No. 1 would increase the amount of local sales and use tax going
to Intercity Transit by 0.3 (3/10) percent. Intercity Transit
would use these funds to restore some of the fixed route bus
service and services for the disabled which were cut in 2000,
and to improve or add other public transportation services.
Explanatory
Statement prepared by: Intercity Transit’s Legal Counsel, Tom
Bjorgen of Bjorgen & Bauer, PLLC, Attorneys at Law.
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