"SDOT is off to a sensible and solid start," transportation committee chair Alex Pedersen said about a budget that cuts $21.5 million for bike/ped infrastructure. #SEAbikes
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Absorbing parking enforcement from SPD adds $15.8 million to SDOT's budget. While overall SDOT budget reductions are presented as $60 million, it may actually be larger given this added line item? ...
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The original ridehailing tax #FareShare spending plan is pretty much out of the window. For one, proceeds cratered along with ridehailing trips after the pandemic started.
Instead of funding the First Avenue streetcar, affordable housing, and later other transit priorities once the streetcar budget is whole, it's now is a grab bag including unspecified transit, bike, and freight improvements.
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In fact, the ridehailing fee MAY NOT RAISE A DIME in the near term without lowering the threshold to 200,000 rides (instead of the existing 1 million rides) for companies to pay in. Hence Durkan is proposing doing that. #FareShare #RidehailingTax
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The good news is fewer car trips. The bad news is the ridehailing fee is expected to raise about 75% less revenue next year. #FareShare #RidehailingTax
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Reacting to the huge SDOT cuts, said that it's disappointing the Bike Master Plan and Pedestrian Master Plan keep getting delayed.
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. asked if drops in Move Seattle Levy revenue triggered these cuts. SDOT Director Sam Zimbabwe said no, that (property tax) revenue is holding steady. "Are these cuts a policy choice then?" Mosqueda asked.
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Director Zimbabwe's response was that SDOT revenue dropped in other areas. For example, parking revenue is down. Hence all the cuts to the bike/ped budget. #SEAbikes
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Zimbabwe highlighted the street cafe program to support small biz during the pandemic. SDOT approved 140 permits for temporary sidewalk cafes. #StreetCafes #OpenStreets
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. said he loved to expand the program and suggested doing dining bubbles like in NYC, e.g., for rainy months.
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SDOT's street cafe program has been slow to close entire commercial street blocks for dining and people walking, rolling, and biking. But it is picking up a little momentum lately. #OpenStreets #CafeStreets
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CM Mosqueda asked about expanding the Stay Healthy Streets program. #OpenStreets
Alas, adherence to existing N'hood Greenways is limiting the program scope.
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Teresa Mosqueda asks about Stay Healthy Streets as being only on neighborhood greenways and how that limited their application. Sam Z answer seems to be that the only way that apart from the normal greenway program there won't be any additional streets given that treatment.
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SDOT doesn't seem to have a plan to deliver open streets to Seattle's densest neighborhoods, where the open space gap is largest. #OpenStreets
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