Tag: rob saka

November 14, 2024

Seattle prepares to pass budget with huge increases for safe streets + What CM Saka should do about Delridge

Thanks to Seattle voters, in 2025 the city is poised to invest $21 million in new sidewalks, $4.2 million in sidewalk repairs, $8.6 million in Vision Zero, $1.6 million in Safe Routes to School, $9.8 million in new protected bike lanes, and $1 million to upgrade existing bike lane barriers. To deliver all this, they…
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tagged: 2024 budget, Delridge Way SW, rob saka, sara nelson, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways
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
September 12, 2024

At memorial bike ride for her husband, Rita Hulsman asked attendees to vote yes on the transportation levy she worked to strengthen

As captured on video by West Seattle Blog, Rita Hulsman chose to use her address to the crowd gathered Saturday for a memorial bike ride in honor of her late husband Steve to promote action to make sure traffic deaths like his do not continue happening to others (starts at 6:45 in the video): “Steve…
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tagged: 2024 general election, 2024 seattle transportation levy, cascade bicycle club, rita hulsman, rob saka, steven hulsman, west seattle, west seattle blog
August 20, 2024

Seattle decided 9 years ago to kill the SLU Streetcar

The South Lake Union Streetcar broke down Friday, August 9, and nobody even noticed until King County Metro and SDOT sent out a press release about it the next Monday. Like, I searched through social media posts and could not find a single person mentioning issues riding the streetcar line the entire weekend that it…
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tagged: center city connector, rapidride j, rob saka, sdot, south lake union, 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
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