The small numbers are really pretty big in STA's Prop 1

By

Staff Reporter

It is seemingly such a miniscule ask from the Spokane Transit Authority on the November ballot for their Proposition 1.

A yes vote will authorize a mere two-tenths of 1 percent of the sales tax to improve their service to Spokane County.

But there’s another small number that voters rarely, if ever, see.

Unless they subscribe to the Spokane Journal of Business and receive that publication’s yearly economic fact book, or spend endless hours diving into census data, they would never discover that less than 3 percent of commuters ride STA.

That same report, the last five years of...