November 30th, 2007
A tough-talking King County Executive Ron Sims says he will scrap a tentative deal with the Port of Seattle unless the Port agrees to tear...
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November 30th, 2007
State ferry officials said Friday that they've found pitting in the hulls of the 40-year-old ferry Hyak and will keep the vessel in an Anacortes dry dock three weeks longer than expected.
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November 30th, 2007
Speaking of
tracking the
reasons Puget Sound’s roads and transit
package failed--here’s a chance for Puget Sound residents to put in your two cents about the
Proposition 1 vote and where to go from here.
Take Sound Transit's survey here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/soundtransit
You can let Sound Transit hear your voice
on
transportation solutions in the region,
congestion pricing, the
taxes we pay
for driving (and the costs we don’t pay), and other fascinating things (well,
we ...
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November 30th, 2007
| Sound Transit Regroups
KUOW News and Information, WA - Nov 30, 2007
At yesterday's (Thurs) Sound Transit meeting, board members got a look at their options for resurrecting light rail's next phase. ... |
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November 30th, 2007
Sound Transit is holding an open house on Wednesday, December 12 from 5 to 7 PM to talk about the University Link station (the one next to Husky Stadium). The station recently hit the 30% design stage, and they're inviting community input: 30 percent station design is complete for Link’s University of Washington Station. Sound Transit is hosting an open house for the community to learn about the latest progress on the project and provide feedback on the station design. Technical staff will be o
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November 30th, 2007
Ron Sims will
take his ball and go home if the Port doesn't commit to ripping out the tracks. But it sounds like the port has the votes on the commission to buy it anyway, even if Sims won't lease it for a trail.
There's a lot of posturing going on here, and so it's hard to know what people's real motives are. The Port does not want the corridor for freight use. If it was a viable freight corridor, BNSF wouldn't be selling it. Remember, this whole thing got started because of King ...
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November 29th, 2007
| Legislature must make congestion relief a priority
Snohomish County Herald Business Journal, WA - Nov 29, 2007
Sound Transit officials claim they’ve learned their lesson, that they’re sorry for the delays and extra costs, and that all those regrettable mistakes are ... |
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November 29th, 2007
Business outside the 'hood here. Sound Transit just plopped this survey into our inbox probing the failure of Prop 1: After the defeat of Proposition 1, the Roads & Transit package, Sound Transit is seeking suggestions on next steps and how best to approach the way the agency should (or should not) proceed on investing in mass transit. To gather this input, Sound Transit has contracted with an independent research firm (Cocker Fennessy) and prepared a brief, anonymous online survey http://ww
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November 29th, 2007
Eastside bikers and pedestrians waited patiently as Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger snipped a 14-foot gold ribbon Wednesday. They were eager to...
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November 29th, 2007
| Prop. 1 too big, costly to pass, survey finds
Seattle Times, United States - 7 hours ago
Sound Transit's governing board today will start discussing whether to try again in 2008 — or maybe in 2010, when the public should be able to see the first ... |
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