QUIZ :: Truth About Traffic

Since voters approved Sound Transit’s Sound Move program 10 years ago, the result for the Central Link 21-mile starter light rail project has been:
1. On budget ($2.3 billion), and on-time construction
2. A little over budget and slight delay in construction
3. Double budget overruns and a year behind schedule
4. Nearly three times over budget, ten years behind schedule, and ST now needs to ask voters for additional taxes to cover cost overruns!
With completion of light rail in 2030, how much will traffic congestion be reduced?
1. 50%
2. 10%
3. 5%
4. Traffic congestion will double
When completed in 2030, Sound Transit’s light rail will carry?
1. 50% of all daily trips in Puget Sound
2. 30% of all daily trips in Puget Sound
3. 20% of all daily trips in Puget Sound
4. Barely more than 1% of all daily trips in Puget Sound
Sound Transit’s proposed ST2 package will cost?
1. $10.8 billion dollars (Sound Transit’s published amount)
2. $23 billion dollars
3. $28 billion dollars
4. $38 billion dollars, yet less than 1% of the public will ever set foot on it. be able to use it the rail system on a daily basis.
The biggest problem with Sound Transit’s newest light rail proposal is that …
1. If it passes, much of the new tax will be used to cover huge cost overruns
2. The new taxes are perpetual – never ending!
3. When completed, light rail will have little, or no effect on reducing traffic congestion
4. All of the above!
The first planned segment (21 miles) of light rail by Sound Transit was due to be completed in 2006. How much is now finished and operational?
1. 19 miles
2. 12.5 miles
3. 8.5 miles
4. 0.0 miles
The new taxes being requested by Sound Transit will cost each Puget Sound household (on average) how much, per year?
1. $125 (Sound Transit’s published amount)
2. $175
3. $215
4. $314 ($747 per year when combined with existing ST taxes since 1996, or $57,000 per household by 2030
Sound Transit’s light rail plan calls for taking over the center roadway (express lanes) on the I-90 Lake Washington Bridge and re-dedicate it to light rail. How much will this reduce congestion on the bridge?
1. 50%
2. 30%
3. 10%
4. WSDOT estimates bridge efficiency will drop by 25 to 30%
Most riders of light rail will come from?
1. People making the decision to give up their cars and ride light rail
2. New residents moving into Puget Sound
3. Tourists
4. More than two-thirds will come from those now riding buses
The annual taxes obtained from voters by Sound Transit in 1996, and those now being proposed will?
1. Be rescinded once construction of light rail is complete
2. Will cease 5 years from now
3. Will cease 10 years from now
4. Remain in effect perpetually; never ending