Fall is in the air, and on Seattle's street signs
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Is the tunnel a boondoggle?
Posted Tue, Oct 20, 6 a.m.
A new study shows Seattle-area tunnel projects are very likely to break the budget. But the nature of most mega-projects also suggests the Viaduct surface option wouldn't be exempt from cost problems either.
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Seattle, toward a 'MetroNation'
Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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The coming Metro Transit cuts are a rare opportunity
Posted Thu, Sep 24, 6 a.m.
Instead of following arbitrary political allocations, let's shift to a philosophy of putting bus service where it's already working and where we want density to go.
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Five peeves, including uninspiring local campaigns
Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6 a.m.
Let's get down to some serious issues, rather than side shows about racism, public options, trade wars with China, Hutchison's past political leanings, and cynical appeals to quickie light rail lines.
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Our region is losing the race against sprawl
Posted Thu, Aug 27, 6 a.m.
New figures show that people are not moving to the regional growth centers anywhere near the rate that our 40-year growth plan predicts. It's time to craft some new approaches.
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Joy ride
Posted Wed, Jul 22, 6 a.m.
The new light rail line opens up new ways to see the city, and brings visibility to long-neglected and fascinating parts of Seattle.
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Light rail at last: What took us forever?
Posted Tue, Jul 21, 6 a.m.
13 reasons for Seattle's slug's pace for making tough decisions.
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Light rail does not a 'grown-up' city make
Posted Mon, Jul 20, 6 a.m.
Seattle has acquired light rail and a strongman mayor, but that doesn't put us in the big leagues. In fact, we were more mature a few decades ago. And Seattle's civic DNA is about not imitating other cities.
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Walking the light rail line
Posted Thu, Jul 9, 6 a.m.
Some impressions on transit, development, and change in Seattle's Rainier Valley, Mossback's youthful stomping ground.
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Why light rail was predestined for MLK Way
Posted Wed, Jul 8, 6 a.m.
The Bogue Plan, defeated in 1911 by voters, lived on in many ways, one of which was creating a route that would prove ideal for rail. Now, 98 years later, it's happening.
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Metro's dilemma: high demand, thin wallet
Posted Thu, May 14, 6 a.m.
Something has to be done about financing Metro, says outgoing bus boss Ron Sims. We also need a new way for bus lines to serve an urban region that is no longer hub-and-spoke.
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Good transit plan gone missing
Posted Wed, Mar 18, 6 a.m.
Green Line idea suffers from streetcar-and-tunnel vision.
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The hot debate over mandating density at transit stations
Posted Fri, Feb 20, 6 a.m.
Why have some affordable housing advocates lined up against a law mandating more affordable housing? Activists might end up creating a worse outcome later.
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We don't need a plan. We need to finish the highways part
Posted Mon, Feb 2, 6 a.m.
We have the regional plan, but we only enacted the transit part of it. Now we have to fund the highways portion we somehow forgot.
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We have a Viaduct plan, not an overall transportation plan
Posted Mon, Jan 26, 6 a.m.
Score another point for a la carte planning. But the public is rightly incensed about the absence of a regional plan that meshes all the projects, embraces new technology, and actually has a budget.
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Think before you cut the state auditor's budget
Posted Tue, Jan 6, 6 a.m.
With some politicians calling for slashing funds for performance audits, consider all the money Auditor Brian Sonntag has been saving, and the dogs he's been watching.
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2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear, Essay 7
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 4 p.m.
The biggest change must come from ourselves, shifting from a culture of greed to one of community. The national shift seems more likely than a local one.
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Please pass the (road) salt
Posted Wed, Dec 24, 12:01 p.m.
A Seattle transplant sums up the region's snowstorm-response failings.
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Can we avoid a Big Dig?
Posted Tue, Dec 16, 6 a.m.
There is a way to avoid huge overruns on mega-projects, but policy makers won't like the medicine. It replaces dreams and pork with data.
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Guardians against farelessness
Posted Sun, Sep 20, 11:26 a.m.
Link Light Rail's unintentionally funny new "Fare Enforcement Officers" should lose the Kevlar and Velcro and try instead to channel their inner old-school train conductor.
MOREThe tone test for the mayor's race
Posted Wed, Sep 16, 4:41 p.m.
Some early examples of how Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn are doing on the barbs battle.
MORENext chapters in the Great Transit Debate
Posted Thu, Jul 16, 1:09 p.m.
Turns out there's no parking near the light rail stations, save one in Tukwila. Welcome to the reality of trade-offs.
MORELight rail plans take a hit in Phoenix
Posted Thu, Jun 25, 4:04 p.m.
The transit system resembles Seattle's, with a small starter line. Loss of tax revenue as well as resistance from some neighborhoods are putting its completion in jeopardy.
MORESound Transit ridership is up, and down
Posted Mon, May 18, 3 p.m.
Transit demand should continue to fall through the year, owing to fuel prices and high unemployment. But the demand for new transit taxes, based on last year's rise in usage, will not go away.
MOREMake way for transit: some pain, some gain
Posted Thu, Feb 26, 10:52 p.m.
Light-rail construction is a mixed bag for Capitol Hill retailers
MOREPuzzlers at the polling booth
Posted Tue, Nov 4, 1:30 p.m. 2008
Four issues that almost had this writer flipping a coin before going with the flawed-but-tried over the better-but-ain't-gonna-happen.
MORENew poll: Gregoire 51, Rossi 45
Posted Mon, Oct 27, 2:06 p.m. 2008
The Washington Poll also found that Initiative 1000 is ahead and that Sound Transit Proposition 1 is no worse than tied and possibly ahead, based on the margin of error.
MORESausage Links: the candidates are still human edition
Posted Fri, Oct 17, 2:30 p.m. 2008
Today's roundup includes bitter endorsements, big builder groups, and a reference to Alfred E. Newman.
MORESausage Links, my lobbyist took me to lunch edition
Posted Thu, Oct 16, 2:16 p.m. 2008
What's better than being a lobbyist? How about being a politician who gets freebies from lobbyists? Better yet: being one of the politicians who received more than $18 million in campaign contributions from lobbyists.
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