More stupidy from Leavitt: He just voted to waste ANOTHER $100,000 of our money on this massive waste of a bridge replacement.

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It is unfortunate that rabid bridge/light rail supporters in government are truly such lying scum.

Yesterday's Leavitt lie?

"This project is going to move forward," said Vancouver City Councilman Tim Leavitt, who backed the new spending. "We have to represent as best we can the interest of transit riders in Clark County."

Here's a clue to the utterly clueless Leavitt:

What you have to "represent as best you can" is the "interest of" EVERYONE in Clark County... not just those that ride a bus, you idiot!

What about the 65,000 plus of us that have to pay the toll just to go to work EVERY DAY that YOU won't have to pay?

What about the interests of those of us getting screwed by YOUR plan to rip off hundreds of dollars from me and my family for a bridge that YOU won't have to pay to cross every day to go to work?

What about OUR interests, moron?

Or is it like Steve Stuart... where you don't give a damn about anything, including the voters?

When are you going to grow some balls and DEMAND that we get the right to vote on this monstrosity, you fricking COWARD?

"Mayor of America's Vancouver?" You shouldn't be class president of the 7th grade.




After bus-fare hike, C-Tran OKs up to $100,000 to help plan bridge

Thursday, March 19 | 11:32 a.m.

BY MICHAEL ANDERSEN
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER

Two weeks after hiking bus fares in order to break even, C-Tran agreed to spend up to $100,000 this year to help plan the new Interstate 5 bridge.

The money will come out of a $136,000 windfall from the ads that C-Tran has on its buses.

Two county commissioners and a city councilwoman opposed the new spending, which passed the local bus agency's board Tuesday night, 4-3.

"We just raised the rates," said Clark County Commissioner Tom Mielke, who voted against the idea. "I thought we didn't have any extra money."

On March 1, basic bus fares rose 20 cents, about 15 percent. Monthly C-Van passes for disabled people doubled to $46, and discounted monthly passes for seniors, students and disabled people rose from $20 to $30.

The fare hikes will raise an estimated $422,000 annually.

The up to $100,000 in new spending approved Tuesday would let C-Tran review legal documents for the bridge and advocate for features of the project that Clark County citizens might want, such as walled-off light-rail stations, C-Tran spokesman Scott Patterson said.

"This project is going to move forward," said Vancouver City Councilman Tim Leavitt, who backed the new spending. "We have to represent as best we can the interest of transit riders in Clark County."

If C-Tran doesn't spend the money, Commissioner Steve Stuart said, Clark County residents would be shut out of key decisions.

"You're either at the table, or you're on the menu," Stuart said.

Rail: bad for C-Tran?
Of the seven C-Tran board members present Tuesday, Stuart, Leavitt, Battle Ground City Councilman Bill Ganley, and La Center Mayor Jim Irish voted to spend money on bridge planning.

Mielke, Clark County Commissioner Marc Boldt and Vancouver City Councilwoman Jeanne Stewart voted not to.

Stewart noted that in 2005, when voters approved a 2005 sales tax increase to support C-Tran, the issue's backers promised the money wouldn't be used to finance light rail.

Mielke added that though many C-Tran riders might support light rail, light rail would be bad for C-Tran itself.

"We're not there to represent the riders of C-Tran, we're there to represent C-Tran," Mielke said. "The only thing it'll do if we put light rail in there is that it'll take money away from C-Tran and riders away from C-Tran."

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