October 23, 2008

County looks at ways to plug big holes in funding for transit

King County's RapidRide express buses, which are due on the streets starting in 2010, may never materialize.

Even if the county's transit division solves its current $83 million budget crisis, by 2010 it will need an extra $60 million per year to run the transit division and county officials do not know now where that additional money will come from.

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