Tag: 2018 budget
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Tell the City Council to protect red light camera funds for safe streets near schools
In an attempt to balance the City Council’s 2019-20 budget, Councilmember Sally Bagshaw has eyed nearly $2.7 million in red light camera funds that currently go to the School Safety Traffic and Pedestrian Improvement Fund (see the budget green sheet PDF). The city has the goal of making street safety improvements at every public school…
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Transportation and climate change groups unite to push for a better Seattle budget
A new coalition of transportation and climate change groups has penned a letter to the City Council and Mayor Jenny Durkan urging bolder action to address our city’s transportation needs, which also happen to be our biggest source of greenhouse gasses. The group is calling itself Move All Seattle Sustainably (“MASS”), and their letter includes…
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Support budgets for a Georgetown/South Park trail, SDOT Equity Program, Summer Parkways + more
It is long past time to build a comfortable and safe biking and walking connection between Georgetown and South Park. These communities are so close, yet the most direct way to walk between them involves a dirt path running behind an active rail line. Biking between the communities requires biking on skinny paint-only bike lanes…
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