I think Kurt Triplett’s on the right track here with his plan to take money from the proposed King County ferry district and apply it to Metro’s funding gap. It’s not enough, but it’s a start.
I was bullish on the King County ferry district back in 2007, and skeptical back in February of this year, due to the same budget constraints that seem to be driving Triplett’s thinking.
The whole idea of a ferry ride across Lake Washington was always one of those “where can I get what they’ve been smoking” ideas. A bus ride to a ferry to a bus ride- in what alternate universe does that make sense?
Some of the stuff that’s gone down around transit in Seattle really should have been studied by the Sociology Department at the U of W, it’s just so darn weird.