Tag: 2017 budget

November 29, 2016

Seattle’s new budget speeds up bike plan, boosts major Rainier Ave remakes + more

Mayor Ed Murray signed the 2017-18 Seattle budget last week, which includes some major short-term and long-term investments in safe streets. We already reported on the most immediately-dramatic budget change, when the City Council pulled funding for Pronto Cycle Share beyond March 31. The Council did preserve Mayor Murray’s bike share expansion funds pending further…
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tagged: 2017 budget, rainier ave
November 23, 2016

Council sets Pronto shutdown deadline, keeps bike share expansion funds for now

The Pronto Cycle Share shutdown timer has officially started. The Seattle City Council modified Mayor Ed Murray’s 2017-18 budget to remove most of the street use funds currently supporting day-to-day Pronto Cycle Share operations. Pronto as we know it will shut down by March 31. This action closes an incredibly frustrating chapter for bike share…
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tagged: 2017 budget, pronto emerald city cycle share
November 14, 2016

Council faces budget choices on bike share, safe streets

Seattle’s City Council will work Tuesday and Wednesday this week to come up with their changes to Mayor Ed Murray’s 2017-18 budget, getting it ready for final passage Monday. We already told you about some of the changes on the table for bike share and some of the proposals pushed by safe streets groups like…
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tagged: 2017 budget
October 20, 2016

Council faces a choice: Kill Pronto now or make lemonade out of the existing stations?

Pronto Cycle Share turned two years old last week, but there hasn’t been a whole lot of celebration. At this point, the system has spent more time operating in a state of uncertainty and controversy than it has operating normally. And that uncertainty has had a huge impact on membership and ridership. After all, few…
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tagged: 2017 budget, andrew glass hastings, bruce harrell, Lisa herbold, mike o’brien, pronto emerald city cycle share, sally bagshaw, tim burgess
October 5, 2016

Mayor’s budget includes big sidewalk boost, SNG pushes for more Vision Zero funds

Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his proposed 2017-18 budget last week amid protests over mostly non-transportation elements like police funding, funding for the city’s homelessness emergency and the city’s ongoing affordable housing crisis. The mayor and the majority of the Council also angered many of the protestors by blocking them from entering the Council chambers even…
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tagged: 2017 budget, ed murray, sdot
September 28, 2016

Mayor’s budget funds downtown streetcar, will form bike/streetcar safety review board

Mayor Ed Murray’s proposed budget would fund the Center City Connector streetcar, providing $45 million over the next half decade to match Federal grant funds and funds from City Light and Public Utilities for relocation work, Seattle Transit Blog reports. As we reported in depth back in June, we have some serious bike safety concerns…
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tagged: 2017 budget, center city connector, ed murray, streetcars