If the King County Council doesn’t agree to charge a new $20 car-tab fee to go toward covering Metro’s budget gap, big bus-service cuts are ahead. So said King County Executive Dow Constantine at a media briefing this morning; here’s the official news release. The Legislature has given the county the authority to levy the fee – temporarily – but citywide media reports like this one from our partners at the Seattle Times indicate a majority of councilmembers might prefer to ask voters instead of making the decision themselves. Metro says it’s already making plans for cuts just in case – it says closing the gap would require cutting 17 percent of the entire system – and released documents last Friday including this one showing the routes/dayparts that would be considered for cuts. West Seattle’s county councilmember Joe McDermott is on record supporting the $20 fee (and quoted in the above-linked news release).
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