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Raise the Wage Burien is bringing together a coalition of workers, community groups, and labor unions to gather petition signatures to put a measure on the ballot this fall to raise Burien’s minimum wage to parity with nearby cities like Tukwila, SeaTac, Seattle, and Renton. In contrast, the city council's version is riddled with loopholes.
By being crystal clear that most councilmembers don't support reallocating existing street space to create new bike corridors, the Bellevue City Council effectively rejected the network its transportation department created.
A red and gold RapidRIde bus waits an a bus shelter with the sign indicating it's headed to Federal Way Transit Center.
King County Metro is launching its bus restructure planning process to accompany Federal Way Link, which opens sometime in 2026 adding three stations and about eight miles of light rail between SeaTac and Federal Way. Fill out Metro's scoping survey.
2023 was a banner year for union organizing nationwide and locally, but much work remains in 2024 to sustain gains and expand on them. And corporate bosses are not taking this without a fight.
Recent initiatives at both Sound Transit and the City of Seattle have put the issue of safety along the at-grade segment of light rail tracks in the Rainier Valley back in the spotlight.
Malls have been closing up in America for years now, but remaining malls continue to reinvent themselves and some are seeing wild success. Dave Amos talks about what has been happening with malls, how they are evolving, and how some have had adaptive reuse into something entirely different.
Aurora Avenue should have a continuous design with safe sidewalks, crossings, bike lanes, and center-running bus lanes to speed up the E Line. Aurora Reimagined Coalition had a design that does all that. Fill out SDOT's survey to back the idea.
The federal programs are aimed at repairing past harms from transportation infrastructure, but the two long-planned Stride stations leave much unrepaired. Sound Transit has been awarded a $68.9 million dollar grant by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) to fund completion of two planned stations in Tukwila and Renton...