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The Good and the Bad of Driverless Cars for Cities
The age of driverless cars is rapidly approaching, and no one seems to know what to do about it. The technology is picking up steam in the behemoth automotive industry while only a few states have regulations on the books … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Energy, Government, Land Use, Roads, Sustainability, Transportation
Tagged adoption, automated, autonomous, AV, buses, cars, charge, cities, computers, congestion, costs, Driverless, efficiency, electric, emissions, energy, fee, Ford, fuel, funding, gas, Google, highways, lyft, motors, roads, safety, self, sensors, streets, Tesla, timeline, transit, transportation, trucks, urban, vehicles
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Finding the Burke-Gilman Trail’s Missing Link
On Thursday night the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) hosted an open house on the alternatives for completing the unfinished part of the Burke-Gilman Trail in Ballard. The 1.4 mile “missing link” is the only incomplete portion of the trail, … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Government, Industrial, Land Use, Public Participation, Rail, Roads, Transportation, Walking
Tagged alternatives, Ballard, Ballard Bridge, Ballard Chamber of Commerce, bicycles, bikes, Burke, Burke-Gilman, Cascade Bicycle Club, community, cost, department of transportation, eis, environmental impact statement, Environmental Science Associates, ESA, Gilman, hospital, improvements, injuries, intersections, lawsuit, meeting, missing link, pedestrians, process, safety, SDOT, Seattle, Seattle Bike Blog, Shishole, Shishole Avenue, study, timeline, trail
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New Protected Bike Lanes Coming to Northeast Seattle
Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) staff hosted an open house on Tuesday to present conceptual plans for improving bike routes in northeast Seattle between East Green Lake Way N and 20th Avenue NE. Most of the project will simply be the … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Cars, Schools, Transportation, Walking
Tagged 15th Avenue, 62nd Street, Boulevard, budget, Cascade Bicycle Club, Cowen Park, Cowen Place, department of transportation, features, Green Lake, improvements, intersections, Olmstead, Parks Department, PBL, project, protected bike lanes, Ravenna, Ravenna Park, redesign, safety, SDOT, Seattle, timeline, University Greenways
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Kitsap Transit Plans to Revive High Speed Ferries
Kitsap Transit plans to begin high speed foot ferry service between western Puget Sound and Seattle within the next few years. Trips between Bremerton and Seattle would be 25 to 30 minutes faster than the current car ferry run, and … Continue reading
Posted in Ferries, Government, Land Use, Transportation
Tagged Bremerton, business plan, Colman Dock, dock, downtown, fare, ferry, funding, high speed, history, Kingston, Kitsap, Kitsap County, Kitsap Peninsula, Kitsap Transit, parking, passenger only, Port Orchard, price, report, ridership, schedule, Seattle, Southworth, study, survey, tax, timeline, Washington State Ferries, WSF
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