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Friends of Seattle Endorses YES Vote on Roads and Transit Package

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Friends of Seattle has issued the following press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2007

Friends of Seattle Endorses YES Vote on Roads and Transit Package
Party on Tuesday to Support the Packages and Candidates Endorsed for City Council

SEATTLE – Following its recent city council endorsements, Friends of Seattle (FoS), a membership-based
advocacy organization dedicated to making Seattle a more urban, livable, and sustainable city, is
pleased to announce its support for Prop 1, the Roads and Transit package.

Learn more at the FoS ‘Call For Leadership’ endorsement party, Tuesday Oct. 16, 5:30-8:00 at
Karma Martini Lounge in Belltown (2318 2nd Ave, cross street: Bell). Tim Burgess, Bruce Harrell,
the Yes on Roads and Transit team, and others will join Friends of Seattle members there.

“Friends of Seattle strongly believes that in order to encourage a more livable, sustainable, and urban
Seattle, the city must have high-capacity transit connecting our neighborhoods and downtown core,”
said FoS President Gary Manca. “The Roads and Transit package aggressively supports urban density
and will shape Seattle for years to come.”

FoS carefully weighed the Roads and Transit package. Indeed, FoS was disappointed to see the package
include suburban highway expansion. But FoS was encouraged by RTID’s pledge to implement
congestion pricing. And on balance, the package’s imperfections are outweighed by the improvements
the package will deliver for Seattle – 50 new miles of light rail, a Capitol Hill-First Hill streetcar, new
bus ramps from I-5 and the Spokane Street Viaduct, a two-way Mercer boulevard, and other mobility
projects. Additionally, the package will finance a study of light rail expansion within the city of
Seattle, including lines connecting Burien, West Seattle, Ballard, the U District, and downtown. That is
the kind of transportation network that Seattle must build to achieve the Friends of Seattle vision of a
Seattle that grows substantially yet becomes more livable as it densifies.

The FoS political committee led the endorsement process. The committee evaluated all sides of the
issue by reaching out to partner groups, stakeholders and local thought-leaders for information and
political analysis. The steering committee approved the endorsement by more than a two-thirds vote.

ABOUT FRIENDS OF SEATTLE – FoS is a membership-based advocacy group whose mission is to network
together a community of voters who inspire elected officials to support a more urban, livable, and
sustainable city. We organize community events, propose policy reforms, lobby elected officials, and
endorse candidates for office.

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