A conversation with Seattle
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
Anyway, what is the problem, again? Rather than create a public utility to deliver fiber-optic internet to city residences, McGinn has instead chosen to pursue a public-private partnership that has customers across the country drooling over its $80-per-month rate for gigabit speed, upstream and down. Continue reading Op-Ed: Seattle Times Editorial Board’s Pitiful Swing at McGinn’s Gigabit Broadband
Transit studies are thick in the Seattle air these days. Just this week, Waterfront Seattle released a transit report (pdf) on options for travel up and down the Field Operations-redesigned waterfront, and Sound Transit and Seattle’s Department of Transportation produced eight alternatives for a Ballard-downtown high-capacity line. Continue reading Is Rail the Answer for Seattle’s Waterfront Tourism & High-Capacity Transit?
“No one wants simply to displace campers,” goes the letter, whose sole clearly articulated objective is to displace campers. Otherwise, it refers to emergency shelters (which for many of the campers, homeless for years and proud of their limited possessions, would be step backwards) and permanent housing, of which there is too little available to accommodate Nickelsville residents, even if they were granted priority. Continue reading City Council to Nickelsville: Stop Being Homeless by Sept. 1 or Face Eviction
A press release from the Mayor’s office quotes McGinn as saying, “We have heard from the public that they want safety improvements on our roads.” To that end, Mayor McGinn is proposing to dedicate $3.25 million on projects on East Marginal Way, Westlake, lower Spokane Street, Rainier Avenue South, and Martin Luther King Way. Continue reading Mayor McGinn: How About $3 Million More in Road Safety Improvements?
Writes Martin: “The Downtown Seattle Association has joined with SDOT and King County Metro on Commute Seattle, which promotes better commute options into downtown, including a cycle track. Business support will be critical, because a cycle track will likely come at the cost of on-street parking.” Continue reading Seattle Times: Cyclists need “more than paint” for safety
Burgess admits that a belated discovery means it’s not so simple for city to get out from under Pacific Place: “For various reasons, our garage debt cannot be paid off directly — or ‘called’ in the language of the bond market — until late in 2017. That leaves us paying the bonds’ 5 percent interest rate in the meantime.” Continue reading City’s Sale of Pacific Place Parking Garage Doesn’t Pencil Out, Says Burgess