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The Petri Dish

July 1, 2008

Looks like Eyman has done it again

Posted at 4:06 pm by Jerry Cornfield

I decided to get a dose of Vitamin D and Tim Eyman this afternoon.

I went to the press conference where Eyman of Mukilteo along with Spokane pals Jack and Mike Fagan announced they had collected 299,019 signatures on petitions for their latest initiative.

If this measure qualifies for the November ballot – and they seem to have enough signatures to make it happen – it will change a few rules and redistribute a few million dollars in the name of “reducing congestion.”

It’s Initiative 985. Here’s the Web site. (Disclaimer: This is Eyman's site and if you go there you will see the smiling faces of the political trio.)

In a very small nutshell...the measure aims to open carpool lanes to all traffic in noncommute hours, synchronize traffic lights in cities and counties and expand the number of people and tow trucks deployed to more quickly clear the scene of bottleneck-causing crashes.

Under I-985, a congestion relief account gets created. To help fill it, a portion of sales tax paid on new and used car purchases will be diverted from the state general fund into this account.

Also, cities with redlight cameras will see some of revenue from tickets diverted to this account too.

Eyman knows this is not the panacea to gridlock.

"We are not going to solve the problem. We are going to make things better," he said.

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