Meetup Video: February 2022 with Chamber CEO Rachel Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfaCfLjpAHc
This month's meetup featured Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Rachel Smith. The Urbanist discussed the state transportation package and other legislative priorities with...
State Transportation Budget Proposals Advance Major Seattle Projects
As the House and Senate transportation committees prepare to get their unified Move Ahead Washington transportation package through their respective houses, they are also...
SDOT Adopts Policy Change to Allow More Marked Crosswalks Without Red Tape
For many years, the Seattle Department of Transportation's policy for justifying whether a crosswalk should be painted has been, counterintuitively, based on the number...
WSDOT Has No Good Reasons to Widen SR 18, Yet State Advances $640 Million...
Unlike Tesla, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and our state legislature have designed an effective autopilot -- an autopilot that, instead of...
Expand Amtrak Cascades Passenger Rail Statewide
“It's not planning for today. This is a vision that's planning for where the region is going to be in twenty years. If we...
Transpo Notes: Bike Helmet Law Repeal, New Water Taxi Routes Report, Amtrak Cascades to...
This week’s Transpo Notes highlights include: repeal of King County's bike helmet law, return of cross-border Amtrak Cascades train service, preliminary report of King...
Don’t Widen Highways, Invest $2 Billion in Affordable Housing Instead
State Democrats propose diverting $2 billion from the general fund to fund their highway package, but this money would be better spent on affordable...
Bellevue Council Update: Some Lessons in Council Procedure
At Monday's Bellevue City Council meeting, Councilmembers voted to approve over $1.7 million in funding for crosswalk improvements, approved further work on a city-sponsored...