BuSing by the Numbers 2008 Transit Ridership in King County (metro and sound transit):133 million In Manhattan:1.623 billion {page break} You Can Park, But You Can’t Hide The curbside arms race between motorists trying to overstay their welcomes and parking enforcement officers trying to make...
(Image: Sound Transit) With a new expansion set to open in August,Sound Transitis rolling out a host of changes including a new $3 flat rate that will eliminate the dreaded “tap off” for its light rail riders and new station ID numbers that are hoped to make navigating the growing sy...
USA cities don’t really have enough total support to have so much operational funding from taxes , whereas European cities/metro area if one has a large percentage of people taking transit then there’s much more support and practically makes sense to have increased taxes in lieu of transit ...
4. KOMO News:https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-homeless-crisis-spent-a-billion-dollars-on-homelessness-but-numbers-of-unsheltered-grew-washington-king-county-homeless-budget-money-citywide-spending-human-services-department-decade-labor-contract-state-of-emergency-organizations-people-living ...
P.S. On a side note, I have a Metro pole and bus stop sign outside my house that has had a closed cover on it for the last 10 years that is now all tattered. The route was the 892 as far as I can tell from reading the fading sign under the closed cover. https://kingcounty...
Carla Saulter has dished about her King County Metro odysseys since 2006 on the seattlepi.com-hosted blog Bus Chick, where the 38-year-old mother of two plays stenographer of passenger chatter and master of mass-transit neologisms—like “bus mack” (one rider hitting on another) and “...
Five Dollar Bus Fares, Here We Come: King County Metro considers cuts and raising fares—again—to make up for$83-million budget shortfall. Same Story, Different Agency: Seattle school board agrees toclose schools around the citydue to $24-million budget shortfall and declining enrollment. ...
The City agrees 11 that Metro Lights is instructive and, in fact, requires upholding the Ordinance. 12 In the 2009 Metro Lights case, the Ninth Circuit upheld an ordinance that banned offsite 13 advertising, but allowed to the city's contractor the exclusive advertising right at bus stops, ...
Tim Alice In Chains From "Hedwig And The Angry Inch" Aurora Def Leppard Neon Trees Pearl Jam Savage Garden Maroon 5 Nickelback Architects Pink Martini Beatles, The Walk The Moon Squeeze Kid Creole & The Coconuts Denver, John From "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" (Metro Boomin) Jolson,...
Federal judge won’t stop sweep of Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park This sweep marks the third time Seattle has cleared homeless campers out of Cal Anderson Park this year, witha pair of sweepstaking place in late-summer months. At the prior sweeps, police officers that were present to support...