Seattle

The Seattle bike blog post goes into it, but basically the "no" voters are being disingenuous by calling the renewed levy both a "huge waste of money" and saying "it doesn't do enough."

Their primary complaint is that "the food is terrible, and the portions are too small."

It can't be both, so I don't read it as earnest disagreement. If they want a bigger levy to do more, they can vote for this one, and push for another one next election season. Killing this one, and then pretending that after a small levy fails that somehow a much larger, "perfect" levy will be put up to vote later and pass? Not likely, and obviously so.

Nah, that's just people pretending to care about safe bridges/roads/sidewalks/bike paths, but who actually just care about their pocket books. They want to use "perfect" to prevent "good," in a very cynical way, and I don't find that compelling.