Tag: streets for all seattle

November 9, 2011

Seattle’s Prop 1 soundly defeated

With about a quarter of registered voters counted, Seattle Transportation Benefits District Proposition 1 (AKA the car tab increase) is getting stomped 60-40. The proposition seemed like a long shot from the start, but I had hope it could squeak out a win if the pro campaign could get the message of faster transit and…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, proposition 1, streets for all seattle, voting
October 18, 2011

Tonight: Help Seattle Bike Blog adopt a Streets for All phone bank

Please join me tonight (Tuesday) from 5:30-8:30 p.m. as and I and other Seattle Bike Blog readers and Prop 1 volunteers adopt a phone bank to help pass TBD Proposition 1. We will meet at the Futurewise offices at 3rd and Marion in downtown Seattle (see below for details). Ballots will be in the mail…
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tagged: events, phone banking, proposition 1, streets for all seattle
October 14, 2011

That was fast: SEEC throws out Prop 1 opponents’ ‘frivolous’ claim

It didn’t take long for the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission to reject a complaint from Proposition 1 opponents Citizens Against Raising Car Tabs (CARCT, pronounced “car city,” I believe…) As Streets for All, Cascade Bicycle Club and Transportation Choices Coalition had anticipated, the commission found no foul play or reason to believe any taxpayer…
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tagged: cascade bicycle club, proposition 1, seec, streets for all seattle, transportation choices coalition
September 28, 2011

Volunteer to help pass Proposition 1

As I dive into the mayor’s proposed 2012 budget, one thing is clear: We need to pass Prop. 1. We are looking at $300,000 in cuts to bicycle and pedestrian spot improvements, and it is unclear how long SDOT will leave Gina Coffman’s vacated position within the bicycle program unfilled (passing her work onto an…
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tagged: proposition 1, streets for all seattle, vehicle lisense fee, volunteer
November 30, 2010

Streets for All: Bike and Ped spending up 7% in city’s budget

Streets for All says the city’s budget as approved by the City Council last week includes a seven percent increase in bike and pedestrian master plan spending over 2010. While this is not near the amount the group (or the mayor) was looking for, it is better than it could have been. From Streets for…
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tagged: 2011 budget, city council, great city, streets for all seattle
September 7, 2010

Streets for All searches for common ground – Real Change

You can still pick up a copy of last week’s Real Change today to read a story I wrote about Streets for All Seattle (or you can read it online): The environmental movement is rarely accused of being united. Inevitably, it seems, different environmentally-minded groups will end up on different sides of an issue, both…
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tagged: real change, streets for all seattle