Tag: city council
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Seattle City Council, time to wake up: An open letter to our first-year councilmembers
Yesterday needs to be this City Council’s worst day if 8 out of 9 of them want a chance at another term. They pulled one of the most chickenshit moves I’ve ever witnessed from my years covering city politics when they decided to hold an expensive special election for the voters’ initiative 137 rather than…
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Council poised to send $1.55B transportation levy to voters
Seattle voters will have an opportunity this November to pass the largest city investment in transportation infrastructure in recent memory. Assuming the Seattle City Council does not make any additional changes to their amended levy proposal (spending breakdown PDF) before final approval next week, the 2024 Seattle Transportation Levy will put $1.55 billion into repairing…
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CM Morales’ transportation levy amendment would fund Council priorities without pitting them against each other
The City Council’s latest deliberations over the Seattle Transportation Levy saw many members trying to find cuts in the proposal in order to fund work they want to see added, whether it’s additional sidewalk construction in their districts or a Burke-Gilman Trail alternative via Leary and Market. But why make cuts to other important work…
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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…
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Watch: New Transportation Committee gets intro from SDOT, CM Kettle puts foot in mouth
Seattle’s new City Council held its first Transportation Committee meeting Tuesday, and every member in attendance was a new Councilmember. The only returning Transportation Committee member is Dan Strauss (D6), but he was excused Tuesday because he was in Olympia on city business. Chair Rob Saka (D1), vice-chair Joy Hollingsworth (D3), and members Bob Kettle(D7)…
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New Transportation Chair Rob Saka: Street safety is ‘a responsibility I am not taking lightly’
Rob Saka has an enormous task ahead of him in his first year as a City Councilmember. In addition to the usual challenges, like hiring a legislative team and getting everyone up to speed on how work gets done inside City Hall, he will also chair the Transportation Committee during what will likely be the…
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