Seattle administration has ‘contempt’ for people forced to drive

Taken from Wednesday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.

Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his plan to pay for his “Move Seattle” transportation plan. That plan includes collecting $900 million in property taxes over nine years.

That doubles the existing levy. It would cost the average homeowner about $275 per year.

Related: Seattle mayor to ask voters for $900 million transportation levy

Now, I have zero choice in life but to drive a car. I am convinced Seattle city officials don’t just dislike the fact that I have to drive a car, they hate my listeners, who, like me, have to drive cars. If they cared about us at all, they would have some kind of plan to reduce congestion.

I talk about this on behalf of you who, like me – especially those who don’t live in Seattle – don’t have a vote for the people running the city.

There are a lot of you who get off work and have to get one kid to soccer practice and another to a piano lesson, maybe a third kid to basketball. You’re shuttling everyone around. You can’t take mass transit, that’s not an option for you.

The City of Seattle has one of the lowest child rates, it’s one of the most childless cities. The city has contempt for traditional suburban families. And the city council enacts policies that dramatically impact us who have to work and drive through the city, and we have to deal with the nonsense that they are creating.

You look at what’s happening on I-5 every day and the gridlock being created on I-405 and the toll lanes.

In order to alleviate traffic on I-5, I think they should build a north-south throughway like they’ve done on Aurora. Build a couple of cross streets that you actually dedicate to cars. Make it easier for people to get across the city.

The city is trying to force everybody into desperation and into mass transit. That doesn’t work for a lot of people who have kids, who have busy lives, who can’t do two transfers and a big hike and take one-and-a-half hours to get to and from work. That doesn’t work for a lot of us.

How many city council members have kids? I wonder if any of them do. I know the mayor doesn’t. I don’t know of any members of the city council who have kids. They have no idea what family life is like and yet they make decisions that impact everybody.

Everybody has to live with the decisions they make, the policies they create to accomplish their social engineering goals around here, and their contempt for the modern family life is reprehensible.

Taken from Wednesday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.

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