I-976 is an initiative to the State Legislature for 2019, sponsored by Tim Eyman, that will likely appear on the November 2019 ballot. I-976 would wipe out billions of dollars in bipartisan, voter-approved transportation investments at the state, regional, and local levels, putting people out of work and jeopardizing Washington’s future.

These essential services would be harmed or ended by Tim Eyman’s I-976:

The threat from I-976 Amtrak Cascades Funding for Amtrak Cascades …is a service of the states of Washington comes from the Multimodal and Oregon. It consists of two fast Transportation Account. The passenger rail lines. One connects Seattle main funding sources for this with Vancouver, British Columbia; the account would be wiped out by other links Seattle to Portland and Sections 6 and 7 of I-976, gutting Eugene with multiple daily roundtrips. our rail links to Oregon and B.C.

The threat from I-976 3 has three funding …is a voter-approved transit expansion sources: sales tax, property tax, plan that will create new connections in and motor vehicle excise tax, or King, Piece, and Snohomish counties. MVET. Sections 8-13 of I-976 Voters in 2016 authorized higher taxes to target Sound Transit’s MVET, expand light rail, commuter rail, and bus which provides around 12.3% of service by handily approving ST3. ST’s annual local tax revenue.

The threat from I-976 Freight mobility RCW 46.17.365 stipulates that the Projects like new bridges, railroad first $6 million in revenue raised sidings, better port roads, and heavy hail from the passenger vehicle corridor improvements are in great weight fee must be deposited in demand throughout Washington because the Freight Mobility Multimodal they support our aerospace supply chain Account. I-976 would cancel the and allow farmers to export crops. fee, imperiling projects we need.

The threat from I-976 Roads in sixty cities Section 6, subsection 4 of I-976 Dozens of cities in Washington – from repeals RCW 82.80.140. This is the Anacortes to Zillah – have formed what statute that gives cities like East are known as transportation benefit districts Wenatchee, Yakima, and Battle to raise revenue for arterial resurfacing Ground the authority to levy projects, traffic calming measures, and vehicle fees for local roads and essential road maintenance. transportation improvements.

The threat from I-976 King County Metro I-976 would repeal the $80/year … is the eighth-largest bus transit agency vehicle fee approved by Seattle in the U.S., carrying an average of 395,000 voters in 2015 to sustain and passengers each weekday on two expand Metro routes in the hundred and fifteen routes. Many King Emerald City. The loss of this County Metro service hours are funded service would severely worsen by the people of the City of Seattle. bad traffic in the Emerald City.

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