Tag: seattle times editorial board

October 18, 2024

The Times Ed Board forgot to do the reading on the Transportation Levy

Just like they did with the 2015 Move Seattle Levy, the Seattle Times Editorial Board once again urged voters to reject the Seattle Transportation Levy. Seattle voters ignored them in 2015, approving the levy by a landslide 59–41. Let’s do it again in 2024. Read our endorsement of Seattle’s Proposition 1 and see a breakdown…
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tagged: 2024 seattle transportation levy, bruce harrell, seattle times editorial board
May 3, 2024

Alert 5/4: Montlake Bridge will be closed 10am to 4pm for Yacht Club season opening + Where’s the Seattle Times editorial against this?!?

The Montlake Bridge will be held in the open-to-boats position for the Seattle Yacht Club’s annual boating season opening day celebration Saturday (May 4) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Depending on your destination, detouring to the University Bridge can be rough if you’ve never done it before. Boyer Avenue E is the only direct…
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tagged: Bike Route Alert, seattle times editorial board, seattle yacht club
March 26, 2024

The Times Ed Board picks a confusing fight against the Emerald City Ride, free speech

Did you know that Cascade Bicycle Club not only hosts bike rides on streets but also advocates for investing in infrastructure to make streets safer for biking? What a scandal! Or at least the Editorial Board of the Seattle Times decided all of a sudden that this behavior is somehow scandalous. What’s not to like…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, emerald city bike ride, emerald city ride 2024, seattle times editorial board
March 6, 2017

After a butane truck crash on I-5 snarls traffic, the Times Ed Board blames … bike lanes?

It seemed every couple minutes, someone at KUOW radio would break into the news broadcast to let people know of another major traffic problem in the Seattle area. It was February 27, and a truck carrying butane had crashed on southbound I-5 downtown. The very hazardous payload forced brave emergency crews to close both directions of…
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tagged: brier dudley, one center city, seattle times, seattle times editorial board
May 24, 2016

Times: Stop building places for people until we can fit more cars

Seattle Times Editorial Board Member Brier Dudley penned his magnum opus on the rights of cars in Seattle this week, arguing that Seattle should stop building places for people to live and work until we can figure out how to get more cars into the city. And he exhumed the “WAR ON CARS” rotting horse…
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tagged: brier dudley, seattle 2035, seattle times, seattle times editorial board
October 20, 2015

Support the Pronto expansion at today’s 2016 budget hearing

Pronto is just one year old, and already people have pedaled the equivalent distance from the earth to the moon and halfway back. That’s not too shabby considering the average trip on Pronto is less than 20 minutes and only 14 percent of Seattle residents live within an easy walk of a station. Well, that…
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tagged: 2016 budget, city council, pronto emerald city cycle share, seattle times editorial board