The 1968 and 1970 Forward Thrust campaign was a slate of 13 ballot initiatives, put before voters in Seattle and King County to correct the harmful excesses of the area’s post-WWII, car-centric, consumer-focused rise. The heart of the Forward Thrust capital improvement projects—twelve funded by bond debt, one funded by a regressive property tax—was an … Continue reading Forward Thrust Part 4: Carrying Forward Thrust’s Ambition Into 2018 and Beyond