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Council passes the Seattle Transportation Plan with few changes
After making very few changes, the City Council passed the Seattle Transportation Plan (“STP”) this week, supplanting the 2014 Bicycle Master Plan and sending it to the city archives. The STP is an ambitious document that attempts to combine all the city’s modal plans and transportation priorities into a single mega plan, resolving as many…
How Mayor Harrell’s proposed transportation levy compares
The $930 million Move Seattle Levy was the most ambitious city transportation levy in the U.S. in 2015, but it also overpromised on what it could feasibly deliver for those dollars. The result is that Seattle has completed a lot of great work while also failing to meet the goals promised to voters, especially for…
A transportation funding ballot measure that inspires
Over the next 8 years, Seattle will improve safety on every high-injury street in the city. That’s the kind statement I would love to see Seattle make when selling the transportation funding measure it will send to voters later this year. This is a high-turnout Presidential election year, and higher turnout should make it easier…
Seattle’s plan for the next decade of safe streets work
Mayor Bruce Harrell released his recommended version of the Seattle Transportation Plan (“STP”) last week, and it is a massive document that attempts to combine nearly all of the city’s various transportation plans into one. This megaplan will be used to guide the development of the next transportation levy as well as guiding decisions about…
Mayor, Sen. Murray celebrate full funding for RapidRide J and Eastlake bike lanes
If there were any concerns that a controversial push to kill the planned protected bike lanes on Eastlake Ave might succeed, Senator Patty Murray and Mayor Bruce Harrell just put that idea to bed for good. “When we’re done here, we will new and upgraded stations, miles of new transit-only lanes, as well as new…
Seattle leaders will break ground on MLK Way safety project
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell will join SDOT and Sound Transit leaders as well as community members to celebrate the start of the MLK Way S safety project 10 a.m. Friday (October 6) where the I-90 Trail crosses MLK. The project includes protected bike lanes from S Judkins Street/I-90 Trail to and, importantly, through the intersection…
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