Watch the video below. The call to action is simple: 1. Go to https://app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder to find the phone numbers of your 2 state Representatives and 1 state Senator. 2. Call each of them and demand they vote against HB 2132.…
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Canada’s Novel Idea for Reducing Traffic Congestion
The people of New Brunswich, Canada have come up with a novel idea on reducing their congestion during peak hours: Don’t let senior citizens drive during those hours. Read the article here at themanatee.net I love this statement from the…
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Senate trying to pass bill to eliminate the #405ETL 45mph speed requirement
Tomorrow, Thursday, 2/21/2019, the State Senate Transportation Committee is having a hearing at 3:30pm on a bill that will, among other things, eliminate all performance requirements. That is, they will no longer have the requirement to meet the 45mph average…
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More people ride Uber & Lyft than Sound Transit
The numbers are out: Even with hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, Sound Transit is no match for the explosive growth of Transportation Network Companies (TNC) like Uber and Lyft. Traditional, old-school mass transit of railroads and big buses…
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Behind The Velvet Rope: Social Class Segregation in our Transportation
I was recently contacted by Nelson Schwartz, a reporter from the New York Times. He is doing a series of articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/business/economy/velvet-rope-economy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/insider/velvet-rope-economy-series.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end-medical-care.html?_r=0 and a book about what he calls “The Velvet Rope Economy.” In his words, this is…
Tagged with: affordable housing, congestion pricing, dystopia, NY Times, social equity, velvet rope
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Opinion: $90/year in Toastmasters or $550/hour Private Coach: Still a Waste on Sound Transit CEO
For $550/hour Peter Rogoff is getting private lessons in leadership and listening skills as reported by Mike Lindblom in the Seattle Times. When you pay someone $328,545 to lead an organization that spends $90,000,000,000 to build a transit system, I…
WSDOT Sec. Millar has it Backwards: Congestion Causes Affordable Housing Crisis
On July 18, WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar gave the keynote speech at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 2018 Joint Policy Committee meeting in Spokane, Washington. In front of Department of Transportation leaders from across the…
WA Senator calls out Secretary of WSDOT for conceding he can’t do his job
Recently WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar gave a speech at a meeting in front of state DOT heads from across the country. In his speech as reported in the Seattle PI he is quoted saying: “…congestion “is a problem we simply…
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7/18/2018 ETA legislative briefing on transportation issues (video)
The Eastside Transportation Association hosted an informational event for the state legislators and candidates to provide them with information about the transportation issues affecting the eastside to prepare them before they get into office, including facts they won’t get from…
Tolls expanding to all of I-5 & I-405 by 2040
WSDOT presented their plans to convert all HOV lanes on the freeways in Washington to HOT (toll) lanes beginning with I-5 and I-405 from Puyallup to Marysville and the I-5 Express Lanes. See map for impacts on Puget Sound. What…
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