Followup: Streets for All Seattle

We passed a resolution in September supporting the efforts of Streets for All Seattle. This is a letter and special request for our consideration.

Dear Chad and the members of the 46th Legislative District,

Thank you for your on-going membership in the Streets for All Seattle coalition; we continue to be excited by our momentum working with the Council to make sure that Seattle's transportation infrastructure works for all of us.

As we have gone through the last eight months, one of the problems that has arisen time and time again is that there are too few options for transportation funding at the local level, each of them problematic. While the State's gas tax goes to build new highways and streets where there weren't ones before, our local ability to fund the creation, maintenance and operations of our local transportation infrastructure is severely hampered by the lack of local tools.

To that end, we are developing a letter--a draft of which is enclosed--to Seattle's state legislators asking them to seek more local transportation funding options in the upcoming 2011 General Session. As a member of the Streets for All Seattle coalition, we would like to include the 46th District Dems as a co-signatory to the letter. With your special relationship to the legislators, we wanted to highlight your signature on the letter.

Please let us know what we can do to help you be comfortable adding your signature to the letter. We are trying to have the signatures by the end of the month.

Thanks,
Brice Maryman
Streets for All Seattle Cabinet Member
Great City Board Chair
Email: bmaryman@gmail.com