Orphan Road

The passage of I-960, which will requires a 2/3 vote of the people or the legislature to raise taxes, will certainly complicate future transportation proposals. Already the state is worried that the gas tax money is drying up, and it will be next to impossible to get the 2/3 majority required to raise revenue for any other projects.

So what does that mean for transportation? Do RTID or Sound Transit count as state taxes, since they were chartered by the state and the state is responsible for tallying the votes, or are they local taxes that can circumvent the 2/3 marjority? That will certainly be up for debate, and probably get tied up in court along with I-960 itself.