Tag: city council

November 13, 2024

CM Saka budget proposal would create plan to end service on SLU Streetcar

The future has become even bleaker for the low-ridership South Lake Union (“SLU”) Streetcar line as Transportation Committee Chair Rob Saka has proposed funding a plan for how to wind down and end service on the line. The budget changes would no actually end service, but they set the stage to do so as early…
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tagged: 2024 budget, bob kettle, center city connector, city council, rob saka, south lake union, south lake union streetcar, streetcars
August 7, 2024

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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tagged: bob kettle, cathy moore, city council, dan strauss, house our neighbors, I-137, joy hollingsworth, maritza rivera, rob saka, sara nelson, tammy morales, tanya woo
July 8, 2024

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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tagged: 2024 transportation funding measure, city council
June 28, 2024

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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tagged: 2024 transportation funding measure, city council, tammy morales
April 24, 2024

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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tagged: 2024 Seattle Transportation Plan, 2024 transportation funding measure, bruce harrell, city council, sdot
February 8, 2024

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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tagged: bob kettle, city council, joy hollingsworth, rob saka, sdot, tanya woo, transportation committee