Washington law allows public transit agencies to impose local sales taxes of up to 0.9% to fund their operations, and C-TRAN currently only collects 0.7%, so there's room to raise it. Washington ...

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The C-Tran board of directors is wise to diligently reconsider sharing the cost of extending Portland's light rail system across the Columbia River.

The article about the C-Tran board reconsidering light rail for the new bridge stated an enormous estimated amount of $20.2 million per year to operate a light rail line (“C-Tran board agrees to ...