Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Seattle

The Beginning of the End for Level of Service?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

There are three little words that will make any livable streets advocate groan: Level of Service. Level of Service, simply put, is a measure of vehicle congestion at intersections. Projects are graded from “A” to “F” based on how much delay drivers experience. That’s all it measures: the free motion of motor vehicles. And that’s […]

Amazon Will Fund Protected Bike Lane Next to New Seattle Headquarters

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 20, 2013 | 11 Comments

Here’s another case of a top company that sees safe streets for biking as talent recruitment tool. One of America’s largest retailers is chipping in to make cycling more appealing at its new headquarters in downtown Seattle. Online giant Amazon will pay for the construction of a protected bike lane on Seventh Street along the two-block […]

If You Pay Sales Tax at Amazon.com, Your Transit System Could Improve

By Tanya Snyder | May 9, 2013 | 25 Comments

A bill moving through Congress could help struggling transit systems around the country. The Senate approved the Marketplace Fairness Act on Monday, a bill that would impose sales taxes on most items sold online to residents of the 45 states (and the District of Columbia) where stores charge sales tax. PubliCola at SeattleMet highlighted the benefit […]

Another Slanted High-Speed Rail Story From Anderson Cooper

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 27, 2013 | 43 Comments

Not one to back away from a terrible argument, CNN’s Anderson Cooper is sticking with his series exposing the “boondoggle” of federal high-speed rail funding. In a segment aired Monday night, he and reporter Drew Griffin hammered away yet again at their argument that high-speed rail has been a waste of money. Under the tagline […]

Chicago, Seattle Mayors Spar Over Bike Lanes, Tech Workers

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

Nothing like a little friendly competition between mayors. It seems a feud of sorts has developed between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn over who can build the best bike lanes. At a speech in December marking the opening of the Dearborn Street protected bike lanes, Emanuel boasted that Chicago was going […]

Seattle “Bikelash” Largely Invented, Poll Finds

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

Like a lot of cities, Seattle has seen a much-hyped “bikelash” against efforts to make the city safer for cycling. But it turns out that this bikelash might be just that: hype. A recent telephone poll of 400 Seattle voters [PDF], conducted via landlines and cellphones, found strong support for cycling — despite what a local […]

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