Big Saturday scoop from Andrew Engelson: The @seattlepd hired Kevin Dave, who struck and killed 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula while driving 74mph, despite knowing about his 'checkered history' as an officer in Tucson.

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Living the Association of Washington Cities' worst nightmare (I'm at a neighborhood cafe without any parking)

This week I attended a meeting on the third floor of City Hall that CM Sara Nelson, who is demanding legislative staff soon physically come into the office four days a week, was attending virtually from the second floor.
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National Library Week is the perfect time to support and give a shout out to your favorite neighborhood library. Here I am at Skyway Library but also shout out to all the libraries around King County 📚 kcls.org

#NationalLibraryWeek

NEW: Just a few months away from the Sound Transit board making a final decision on a West Seattle light rail alignment, Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda is asking for the agency to take another look at the potential options on the table for the North Delridge area.
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Tuesday morning: the Seattle City Council's transportation committee gets its first briefing on the city's Vision Zero program under the new city council.
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“The incident was among five since February that appeared to target homeless people in Seattle, killing two and injuring two others.” seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…

Auburn wants to widen E Valley Highway on the King/Pierce County line from three to five lanes.

They are telling PSRC that the widening will reduce VMT because...it includes a shared use path and a bus uses the road 9 times in the AM & 8 in the PM w/ no weekend service.

The Ben Franklin board just listened to riders & voted unanimously to punt a roll back of their sales tax.

I’m inspired by the hundreds of riders who sent in letters and those spent a whole evening to testify to the board. Thank you!

'How many board members took transit here tonight? These cuts you are proposing are going to affect people like me, a lot of people in this area who don't have the privilege of driving.'-Jaime Torres at the Ben Franklin Transit mtg where the board debates a tax cut to gut transit

Incredible that the default of our regional transit agency is to purchase land with vibrant businesses on it before maximizing use of existing public right-of-way. Not a great way to build transit and not a great way to win hearts and minds.

The *only* upside of environmental impact statements still being required to include a 'visual and aesthetic resources' section is that we can use them as reporters to get project renderings.

Just announced: the City of Redmond will open the massive covered pedestrian and bike bridge over SR 520 at Redmond Technology Station on Monday, April 22, in advance of the start of light rail service on the 2 Line the following Saturday.

Sorry Matt Baume, I want this crosswalk painted ASAP too, but one of the few things holding this city together right now is the fact that individual councilmembers can't direct other city departments. Can you imagine if all nine could direct SDOT crews?
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BREAKING: The Seattle Public Library announces 1,500 hours of closures in the next eight weeks. Library workers say it doesn’t have to be this way.
thestranger.com/news/2024/04/1…

With a full and heavy heart, here's a message from our campaign:

In the first of what will be a full series on the proposed programs in Seattle's draft transportation levy, a deep dive into what $423 million in street repaving and major maintenance over 8 years could do to corridors around the city.
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