King County Council to Okay $20 Congestion Reduction Charge

Michael van Baker — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:27:53 +0000

It's an unsettling sign of the times that the King County Council needed to think as hard as it did about approving a $20, two-year, car-licensing fee to forestall a 17 percent cut in Metro bus service. As mentioned earlier, that's a nickel a day to keep bus service going that carries over 340,000 people every day. People who can't afford that have other, more significant financial problems that have little to do with Metro funding and car tabs.

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King County Council to Okay $20 Congestion Reduction Charge