Planned and canned: What happens to local transportation
projects?  "Dozens of transportation projects went on the
chopping block last year when Initiative 695 passed. But with
legislators still quarreling over the state budget, no one knows
which projects will become casualties.The state Department of
Transportation lost a third of its budget to the tax-revolt
initiative, which repealed Washington's motor vehicle excise tax
and set car tab fees at $30.Of the $1.24 billion deficit in
DOT's current two-year budget, $558 million is money motorists
would have paid in vehicle excise taxes. The rest--$686 million
--was money the state expected to collect by selling bonds
approved by voters in Referendum 49.Plans to replace some of
this money include the House Republicans' proposal to divert
sales taxes on tires and other vehicle-related items to fund
transportation.Senate Democrats proposed raising traffic fines
for money to run passenger ferries for a year. And both House
and Senate Democrats advocated using part