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I voted ‘Yes’, even though I don’t use the bus on a regular basis. Why yes? Providing public transportation is a social [justice] issue; a ‘liveable city’ issue; an environmental issue; etc.
This ‘no’ vote is going to hit a lot of people very hard. Those that depend on bus service to get to and from work, let alone for personal endeavors, are going to have less efficient choices and spend much more time transferring between buses in order to get where they need to go.
For instance: Have a friend that lives near the U-district. To get to work at Northgate, he has to ride the bus to downtown Seattle, then transfer to another bus to Northgate. It’s a 1 1/2 hour commute each way. Most likely, these type of long commutes are going to become more frequent.
But like I heard a ‘no’ voter say last night, ‘if bus riders don’t want to spend more time on the bus, then they should just buy a car’. I just looked at him/her and said nothing.