| | southcountyjournal.com - Highway 605 back on road - Proposed freeway would cross through Snoqualmie Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | That's the conclusion of a half-million dollar state study to be released in coming weeks about the controversial freeway, long dubbed Interstate 605, which has been fought over for at least three decades. |
 | | ``When 605 came up in the past, it was largely pie-in-the-sky,'' said David Irons Jr., the newly elected Metropolitan King County councilman who represents the district where the freeway could be built. |
 | | Legislators in Olympia are gnashing their teeth over transportation and transit funding, Fletcher said, in the wake of Initiative 695, which repealed the motor vehicle excise tax and created a flat $30 car tab fee. |
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