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$240 million over ten years is an awful lot to spend on bike trails. Seattle's most recent budget includes $122 million for the Parks department out of a $3.4 billion total budget, so if this new Master Bike Plan is entirely new money, we're talking about increasing the total budget by 1% and the Parks budget by 20% (though obviously all the money wouldn't come out of the Parks Department)

The article doesn't state whether mayor Nickels's plan represents $240 million in new money, or some new money plus a rearrangement of existing city funds. But either way it's definitely a bold proposal.

Personally I think if we're going to be voting on Sound Transit 2 and some future Viaduct replacement plan and 520 replacement and the Master Bike Plan, something's gotta give. After all, the next mayor has to have something to do.

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 10:14 04 April 2007