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NEW STORY // East Link TOD: Microsoft Grows Around Redmond Technology Station, If Not Housing via @UrbanistOrg // 🔗 theurbanist.org/2024/04/27/eas…
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3/3 Then, I checked out The Underline, a trail starting from the Miami River which runs underneath the elevated rail and features multiple areas where the modes of travel are split. I did have a nice 1.5 hour nap afterwards
By accident of the calendar, I'll be spending 2 Line launch weekend in Portland. Still helping with wall-to-wall coverage at @UrbanistOrg.
If the board cared about transit quality or costs, two shallow stations on Westlake (as we wrote about a while back) is the direction they would have gone.
LOL Dallas is the deadliest city for pedestrians in the developed world.
Dallas named the third 'most-walkable' city in the nation bit.ly/44awM7p
Now would be a great time for cities to install automatic noise cameras. Want to rev your engine and wake the neighbors? Have at it — your ticket is in the mail.
@UrbanistOrg I don’t know. Sounds like a National Guard problem to me. 🤣
I'm not here to tell you everything is fine, but this is an incredibly unserious thing for the Seattle City Council president to say.
I know fighting crime is so vague… but we could use the National Guard to quickly build homeless shelters and temporary housing which would be better than our current plan of doing nothing.
Sara Nelson agrees that we should call out the National Guard to address crime in Seattle.
Potentially $500 million more (year of expenditure $) for 10 months of delay on the delivery of the entire WSBLE project, but no similar ST Board excitement to commit to a barely decent (by international standards) regional transit and interstate rail hub at 4th Avenue in CID?
The presentation to the Sound Transit board on the potential SLU station changes later today is online. It importantly notes that adding a new alternative at this stage, largely for the purposes of avoiding traffic lane closures, would add another ~10 months to the project.
This is a textbook case for recusal.
Council President Sara Nelson interrupts speaker @colinokeefe as he calls on he to recuse herself from Pay Up discussions because Seattle Hospitality Group, which presumably would benefit from minimum wage rollback, just bought into Fremont Brewing, her business.
Seattle CM Sara Nelson, trying to skirt the shame of being the champion of a subminimum wage proposal, just said it’s not her proposal, it’s the app corporations’ & Drive Forward’s (the Uber founded & funded lobby group). Which has been our point exactly 🙃
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@TribTowerViews It's crazy that in the year of Lord 2024, in the wealthiest state of the wealthiest etc etc, there is a two-track, fairly busy stretch of rail running in the middle of a major downtown like it's 1890.
Again, I will credit the Harrell Administration when they’re doing something good, and this is such a thing. That said, as the article notes, the increased problem is likely due to homeless people seeking shelter and warmth, and the city is still failing to do enough to help.
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Daily reminder that Spokane has a 5-2 progressive supermajority on its City Council and Seattle has…this:
Sara Nelson agrees that we should call out the National Guard to address crime in Seattle.