gary locke roads and transit 2007 ballot measure

Locke Recruiting Big Guns To Push For Roads, Transit

Seventeen months before the big vote, former Gov. Gary Locke is recruiting a high-powered committee to promote a ballot measure for more highways and transit lines in urban King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Locke is serving with two co-chairmen on opposite ends of the political spectrum: John Carlson is a conservative radio talk-show host who lost the governor's race to Locke in 2000 and last year backed a losing initiative to cancel a gas-tax increase. Jessyn Schor is executive director of the pro-transit Transportation Choices Coalition. Their Puget Sound Transportation Roundtable is only an advisory board, but it is expected to include labor, environmental and business leaders whose clout and money might influence what local politicians send to the November 2007 ballot. Read More ›