Forward Thrust

The Forward Thrust ballot initiatives were a series of bond propositions put to the voters of King County, Washington in 1968 and 1970, designed by a group called the Forward Thrust Committee.

The Forward Thrust Committee was founded by James R. Ellis[1] and effectively disbanded shortly after the 1970 defeats.

[3][4] Seattle Mayor Dorm Braman was also a strong backer of the 1968 initiatives.

[5] The failure of the rapid transit propositions meant that a nearly $900 million federal funding earmark that had been secured by U.S.

Senator Warren Magnuson if local bonds passed went instead to fund Atlanta, Georgia's MARTA.

Powell S. Barnett and three Seattle parks officials look over plans for Powell Barnett Park , one of many parks funded by the Forward Thrust bonds