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Originally Posted by urbanlife
Yeah, it didn't help that it also required all three counties to vote on it. Though the only reason this bill was being put forward like this was because of the current administration not really wanting to invest in transit. Hopefully with Biden in office, we will see a drastic shift in that and Metro and Trimet can get more federal funding to help with the SW line and studying a tunnel through downtown.
This is mostly just a roadblock that we will get around. I am personally annoyed because there was some great safety improvements that were in the bill that would have really benefitted pedestrians outside of the city.
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Agree, and don't forget too it was competing with measures to fund libraries, parks, and schools, which rarely if ever fail to pass in recent times. Considering the pandemic and accompanying economic uncertainty, if there was one public funding measure that was going to be deferred, it was public transit.