Seattle Times Op-Ed Page, May 22, 2000
Link light rail on the right track
by Richard D. Ford, Allan B. Darr and Aaron OstromSeattle Times Op-Ed Page, June 1, 2000
Sound Transit: Don't believe the hype
by Donald Padelford and Emory Bundy
Aaron Ostrom is Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Washington, a
non-profit organization dedicated to bring citizens together to manage growth and stop
sprawl in Washington.
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Emory Bundy is a founding member of Citizens for Mobility, an
association of concerned citizens dedicated to promoting cost-effective,
environmentally-friendly mobility solutions to traffic congestion in the central Puget
Sound area. Biography of Emory Bundy and an essay he prepared on light rail in 1999 for the El Pomar Forum at Center for the New West. Emory Bundy's position statement against the light rail plan in 1996 as a dissenting member of the Outreach Committee of the Regional Transit Authority. "The region would be worse off by $1 billion if the RTA built the proposed system than if it did nothing at all." Emory Bundy reflects in 2005 on Aaron Ostrom's essay from 2000. |
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