Wow - These Guys Really Hate Transit


Posted by Matski on October 12th, 2007

Since Bruno won’t let me post anything inflammatory on OrphanRoad, I’ll have to go off on the Seattle Times here.  Their headline today: “Should You Trust Sound Transit?”

You’re all smart people, so I won’t bore you with a discussion of the semiotics of this statement (basically, by asking the question, it sets up a mental dichotomy — “trust or not trust” — that frames the debate in a way that puts Sound Transit on the defensive).

Still, you have to ask: what is it about transit that gets the Times’ collective knickers in a twist?  You’d think they’d be excited … after all, newspaper readership among transit riders MUST be higher than among drivers, for obvious reasons (at least, TicketPunch agrees).  So from a purely economic perspective you’d think the Times would be pro-transit.  [Of course, if the median voter can't be trusted to reliably vote in her own self-interest, maybe I should expect that a major corporation owned by a dinosaur would be similarly unenlighted.]

Anyway, vote for RTID!


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