Seattle TBD Approves Extra $20 Registration Fee
Soon it will cost Seattle residents an extra $20 to register their cars. That's because the Seattle Transportation Benefit District (TBD) approved the $20 increase last night. The money raised would go toward a $500 million backlog of transportation projects and other improvements.
Here's more information from the Seattle PI.The City of Spokane has already formed a TBD and there's an effort in the works to form a countywide TBD. Some people aren't familiar with them so have been skeptical.
Does it give you more faith in a TBD to hear that a large city like Seattle has implemented one?
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
"Does it give you more faith in a TBD to hear that a large city like Seattle has implemented one?" No, Seattle also has a B & O tax which does not work well on any city near a border with other states.
Interesting that they just did the $20 which they can do without a vote of the people paying the tax. :)
The folks at Liberty Lake have also expressed some concerns regarding the proposed TBD and being a border city.
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