Tag: transportation committee

September 20, 2016

Seattle’s safer speeds plan heads to Transpo Committee + Housing is more important than parking

Seattle’s plan to lower default speed limits across the city heads to the City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee today. The plan — which has support from the Mayor’s Office, SDOT and the City Council — needs to make it through the committee and the full City Council before getting the Mayor’s approval and going…
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tagged: speed limits, transportation committee
May 18, 2016

We Can’t Wait, Part I: People pack City Hall to end Seattle’s bike plan delays

Seattle has not built a bike lane downtown since October 2014. The 2nd Ave bike lane was supposed to demonstrate what could be, but going into summer 2016 it remains all that is. Holding signs saying, “My Family Bikes” and “Safe Streets Now,” bike plan supporters chanted “We can’t wait!” in the City Hall lobby.…
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tagged: #WeCantWait, bicycle master plan implementation plan, mike o’brien, sdot, shirley savel, transportation committee
May 16, 2016

Actions planned before Tuesday City Council meeting on slashed bike plan

This moment right now was supposed to be the time Seattle finally took bold action on bike safety projects, taking our years of planning and making them real. The big electoral victory in November should have given the city both the political power and the funding to build a long-needed network of bike routes across…
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tagged: city council, ed murray, sdot, transportation committee
March 3, 2016

Pronto buyout passes committee amid confusion, heads to full Council vote

At the end of the City Council Sustainability & Transportation Committee meeting Tuesday, the Pronto ordinance appeared to end in a 3-3 tie with Councilmembers Tim Burgess, Lisa Herbold and Debora Juarez voting NO and Rob Johnson, Kshama Sawant and Mike O’Brien voting YES. Even Committee Chair O’Brien thought it was a 3-3 vote, saying…
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tagged: city council, debora juarez, kshama sawant, Lisa herbold, mike o’brien, pronto emerald city cycle share, rob johnson, tim burgess, transportation committee
February 29, 2016

Pronto buyout is not only a good deal for Seattle, it’s the only choice that makes sense

Sustainability, access to healthy transportation choices, economic development, congestion reduction, innovation. Public bikes grow and support so many of Seattle’s goals and values as a city that it’s hard to believe we are even thinking about cutting modest losses and liquidating the system at the first sign of challenge. The City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation…
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tagged: city council, city council district 1, demi allen, Lisa herbold, mike o’brien, pronto emerald city cycle share, transportation committee
February 18, 2016

A sober look at Pronto’s finances ahead of Council meeting

The City of Seattle already cut checks in December and early 2016 totaling $305,000 to keep Pronto Cycle Share operational, Josh Feit at Publicola reports. This revelation will certainly be a topic of conversation during tomorrow’s 2 p.m. Transportation Committee meeting about the system. These payments were included in a slide we published in late…
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tagged: barbara gray, city council, josh feit, nicole freedman, phyllis porter, pronto emerald city cycle share, publicola, scott kubly, sdot, transportation committee