Transit
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Opinion
Environment: Public transit | The Seattle Times
Re: “State ferries: Integrate with public ground transport” [Nov. 26, Northwest Voices]: I take advantage of and recognize the state ferry system and couldn’t agree extra with the letter encouraging the Washington State Division of Transportation and public transit officers to raised coordinate schedules and connections between ferries and public floor transit. Even connections between buses and Sounder trains typically…
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Keep this unsung transit benefit rolling for another 30 years
As we emerge from COVID-19 and navigate our new hybrid work surroundings, leaders throughout the Puget Sound area are on the lookout for new methods to help the long-term well being of downtowns. This yr, Seattle notched some actual victories downtown, and our public transit system performed a significant function. Amazon workers returned to the workplace, refamiliarizing themselves with buses…
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Sound Transit: Taxpayers deserve better fare collection
Re: “Sound Transit to resume citations for passengers as it enforces fares” [Nov. 1, Local News]: Sound Transit wants to determine a fundamental fare for ridership and implement it for all simply as all different main cities do. The present and proposed programs are completely unfair and unworkable. Beneath the proposed system, a nonpaying rider must be confronted thrice by…
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Sound Transit needs fare revenue, but keep enforcement equitable
From 2019 to 2020, Sound Transit’s fare income dropped from $96 million to simply $30 million as ridership dropped in sync with restrictions created by the COVID-19 pandemic. On the similar time, individuals paying their fares on the consideration system additionally dropped. By some measures, 40% to 70% of riders weren’t paying fares. Since rising from the pandemic, the regional…
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Business
What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out
Breadcrumb Path Hyperlinks PMN Business Creator of the article: The Related Press Jeff Mcmurray Revealed Sep 16, 2023 • 5 minute learn Article content material When a small metropolis abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly backed van service providing $1.50 journeys anyplace on the town, solely one in every of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant…
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Opinion
Sound Transit: Get mass transit right for the ‘masses’
Re: “Developer could be key at Seattle transit station south of Chinatown International District” [July 13, Local News]: Clearly, there are legit arguments on each side of the difficulty as to the place to website the long run mild rail station within the neighborhood of the Chinatown Internation District. It’s however astounding to me that Mayor Bruce Harrell and King…
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Sound Transit: Support Fourth Avenue station
Re: “Holiday travel: Take transit to the airport” [July 4, Northwest Voices]: It gained’t be really easy and “stress-free” attending to Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport by way of Hyperlink mild rail if Sound Transit will get its means. Within the Could vote, the ST board declared north (jail space) and south (Interstate 90 freeway interchange) stations most well-liked choices to Fourth…
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Holiday travel: Take transit to the airport
Re: “Tips to ease July 4 travel through busy Sea-Tac Airport” [July 1, Northwest]: Within the article about touring to Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport, a lot may have been mentioned about public transportation. The Hyperlink gentle rail from Seattle, buses from Bellevue (Sound Transit 560, as an illustration). All of us ought to think about using these methods to journey, particularly…
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Opinion
Metro Transit managers’ English-only directive devalues employees
The Puget Sound space is residence to dozens of ethnicities and cultures. That range is oftentimes celebrated and appreciated. However that’s apparently not the case with two Metro Transit supervisors, who instructed two workers to not use their native language, Amharic, brazenly at work. A lawsuit filed by the 2 workers, Daniel Fisseha and Berhanemeskel Gebreselassie, claims they had been instructed…
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Opinion
Enforce transit fares, but fairly, without bias or intimidation
A courtroom case that began with Snohomish County sheriff deputies interrogating a passenger on a Neighborhood Transit bus has ended with the state Supreme Court docket deciding that the deputies wrongfully detained the Snohomish County man when he didn’t show to them he paid bus fare. The case not directly speaks to how public transit programs ought to or mustn’t…
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