[Transit] Question re: RTO and ridership

[Harry Maher]

I think he is your senator but to be sure you'd have to see to be sure:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/

I don't think we need to take a public position specifically re:
RTO--employers are gonna do what they do and it's not going to be in our
control.

On the other hand, you're right that it provides an opportunity-- in
response to RTO and the resulting traffic/environmental impact, I think
it's a good time for us to bring back Orca 4 All
<https://seattletransitblog.com/2019/09/25/orca-for-all/>! We were on track
to pass it in 2020 (through the City Council) but then COVID happened and
derailed everything. We have discussed bringing that back over the next
year(s), and the city council race combined with RTO provides a good
opportunity for us to press the issue.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:30 AM Peter Campbell <odell.campbell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Rookie question to the group:
>
> There was a report on KUOW this morning spinning Amazon's RTO as a boon to
> County Metro. Honestly it sounded like a well-planted Amazon press release.
>
> What's our response to this? Do we experience tension vis-a-vis our
> support for Amazon employee organizing and the impact of RTO on transit
> ridership?
>
> I'm assuming Amazon's suggestion that their RTO policies are the savior of
> transit's ridership problem is bullshit—also given Senator Nguyen's point
> about how ineffective fares are as a source of revenue. I could see Amazon
> planting stories like this while also talking to policymakers about cutting
> transit funding if ridership doesn't increase. But I don't know!
>
> Finally is Nguyen my state senator? I live in West Seattle just below the
> junction on Avalon. From the 20-minute interaction he seemed pretty good?
>
>
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