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Congressional staff members got a bird's-eye view of this region's traffic problems yesterday before reporting back on the need for federal dollars to support the development of Sound Transit.

Between flights over freeway corridors in a chartered helicopter, the two senior staff members of the House transportation appropriations subcommittee were briefed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport by Sound Transit officials on the three-county project that will take the next...