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Category: Transportation
Op-Ed: What About a “Broken Windows” Approach to Traffic Safety?
You can count on parking being enforced, along with jaywalking (downtown) and speeding in a school zone, but traffic officers have bigger fish to fry than your U-turn across a double-yellow line while juggling your phone for an important text. Continue reading Op-Ed: What About a “Broken Windows” Approach to Traffic Safety?
Are Seattle Drivers as Bad as Allstate Says?
Insurance company Allstate just released their 2013 America’s Best Drivers Report, and Seattle has actually slipped in the rankings from last year, down six spots to 160th out of 200 cities. (In 2012, we were 154th.) Continue reading Are Seattle Drivers as Bad as Allstate Says?
Gondola Gap! B.C. Opening Up Lead on Seattle
Up in B.C., our Squamish correspondent alerts us to “B.C.’s top new attraction for 2014”; the Sea to Sky Gondola is due to open next May, and begin ferrying a hoped-for 200,000 sightseers annually from Howe Sound to the mountains of Shannon Creek, or vice versa. Continue reading Gondola Gap! B.C. Opening Up Lead on Seattle
Seattle Drivers Not Sure if They Have Hit Everyone Yet
Who knew that a lack of rain would make Seattle drivers even worse? At midnight, record-keepers will be marking into … Continue reading Seattle Drivers Not Sure if They Have Hit Everyone Yet
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Waterfront
In these illustrations, the stitch to fix the scar is about as wide as the waterfront itself, and wider at parts. Tourists will share those remarkably spacious lanes with freight traffic delivering goods to the city. Continue reading A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Waterfront
The Divorce: Washington State Republicans vs. Big Business & Boeing
But Boeing’s support — and that of heavyweights the Association of Washington Business and Washington Roundtable — for a $9.5-billion transportation package was not enough for Washington’s Senate Republicans, who were against a 10-cent gas tax increase (phased in over five years, upped two cents annually). Continue reading The Divorce: Washington State Republicans vs. Big Business & Boeing