Hershey’s Misses

A budget amendment from Alexis Mercedes Rinck asks the Office of Sustainability and the Environment to study the replacement of on-street parking spaces with trees.

A budget amendment from Dan Strauss, co-sponsored by Saka and Rinck, would pilot summer transit service from central Ballard to Golden Gardens.

We deserve better. Dehumanizing our neighbors by using photos of them on their worst days without their consent is unacceptable. We have a lot of work to do to address homelessness, but this only moves us further from that goal by othering real people in an attempt to score cheap political points.

Audience question about other highway opportunities. Nickels mentions Aurora Avenue, new traffic lights, narrower, etc. James mentions lidding I-5 in the U District. Chinatown-ID has big impacts on people. There are other opportunities citywide.

Audience question on other failed projects that didn't do enough public outreach. Nickels says the Seattle Commons in what is now South Lake Union. He thinks the voters were skeptical of the billionaire booster and voted no twice.

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NEW: YOUNG PEOPLE GET YOUR BUTTS TO THE BALLOT BOXES. So far, only 10% of ballots come from voters under 35. And overrepresentation of older voters could be the difference between Katie Wilson and Bruce Harrell 2.0. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/voters-...

Dan Strauss, Mark Solomon and Joy Hollingsworth want to set aside $200K in next year's budget for "planning, relocation,
and the preservation efforts" on Seattle's Melbourne W2 trams, operated on the defunct Waterfront Streetcar line from 1982-2005. They're still sitting in a warehouse.

At today's Sound Transit board meeting, Dow Constantine says that systems integration testing on the 2 Line across Lake Washington has ramped up, with trains crossing the bridge seven days a week, from 8pm to 7am.

"Tuesday night at the Capitol Hill Community Council/First Hill Improvement Association Mayoral Debate, Harrell revealed his office is looking at removing more elements installed during construction of the $144 million RapidRide G line."