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Caffeinated News & Gossip featuring Dwight Pelz, a new parking garage, a new tunnel, Reuven Carlyle, Sylvester Cann, and Boring Machine Brenda.
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Is public transit all about getting there quickly and conveniently, or about having fun and looking cool? The new First Hill Streetcar line will give us one, but we could have had both.
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As a new round begins, over a Sound Transit parking garage, there are lessons to be learned from the successes at Northgate in recent years and from transit-oriented development along California's BART lines.
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There are some encouraging signs, but tolls can't work as well as possible without more flexibility and wider adoption. And cross-lake efficiencies also require much more flexibility in transit than reliance on light rail.
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Opponents of rail transit tend to talk up the advantages of bus rapid transit. But are they even serious about promoting fast buses?
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An effort has been launched to get a Ballard-University District light-rail line on the ballot. And won't Mayor McGinn be back with something to keep his vision for streetcars moving forward?
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As the city comes to terms with this year's failed car tab fee, officials are already looking for a new ballot measure. But the calendar is looking full.
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While the city's residents just rejected a tax that included $18 million for streetcar planning, Seattle's Transit Master Plan envisions devoting most of a 20-year effort to streetcar lines.
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Two court cases in Washington state are testing how free speech and security relate to one another in a modern era.
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Tim Eyman and company claim they just want to help the poor folks who can't afford higher tolls at rush hour. Don't believe them.
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Seattle's Proposition 1 doesn't look all that attractive (does anyone really want to vote for something that says "fee increase" in the ballot title?). But here's how a density and transit advocate decided to vote yes.
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Proposition 1 has taken its share of criticism, and it's not perfect. But voting against would be perfectly wrong for a city that wants to compete economically in the country and the world.
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New data, relevant to tonight's Road Safety Summit at City Hall, suggest elderly pedestrians are being mowed down more than cyclists. The data indicates police ought to focus more on drivers who fail to yield to walkers and bikers. And we're not making much progress in reducing auto traffic.
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Bellevue Square redeveloper Kemper Freeman Jr. found the perfect partner and issue for quietly advancing his anti-rail agenda.
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