{"id":6954,"date":"2014-04-16T07:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:20:10","slug":"vote-save-king-county-metro-roads-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/vote-save-king-county-metro-roads-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote: Save King County Metro and Roads Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>A special April election will determine whether King County faces huges cuts to Metro transit and roads maintenance.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bike-on-bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6959\" alt=\"bike on bus\" src=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bike-on-bus-300x230.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bike-on-bus-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bike-on-bus.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just weeks before bike to work month, King County voters face a vital April special election. It will determine whether Metro Transit will face huge cuts and if we maintain King County roads for cars and bikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vote YES on Prop 1 to keep our buses running and prevent major cuts to Metro bus service.\u00a0<strong>We need to make sure our seniors, students, people with disabilities, and working families still have a way to get around.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vote YES on Prop 1 to preserve King County\u2019s roads and bridges.\u00a0<strong>Forty percent of Prop 1 goes directly to each community in the county to make our streets, roads, and bridges safer.\u00a0<\/strong>Spending $1 now to repair our roadways avoids $6-14 in replacement costs if we continue to put off these critical investments. Better local roads benefit bicyclists across King County.<\/p>\n<p>We like bike racks on buses \u2013 we need more of these, not less. Every workday 400,000 trips are taken on Metro; less buses mean worse traffic and a longer commute.<\/p>\n<p>Ballots are due by April 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0\u2014 Earth Day. But there\u2019s no need to wait. Mail in your ballot as soon as you get home.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Vote YES on Prop 1 today<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Together we can keep King County moving whether you bus, bike, drive, or walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special April election will determine whether King County faces huges cuts to Metro transit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,34,45,82,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-alert","category-bike-funding-policy-wa","category-king-county-wa","category-transit","category-transportation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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