Heidi Groover on Twitter: "After today’s presser on the new 8th Ave bike lane, I asked Mayor Jenny Durkan about @mlbaruchman's reporting on serious injury and fatality crashes: https://t.co/MsDBDXDpcY "We want to double down on that to make sure that we go in the other direction," Durkan said. https://t.co/C9ljEMdK6S" / Twitter

After today’s presser on the new 8th Ave bike lane, I asked Mayor Jenny Durkan about

's reporting on serious injury and fatality crashes: seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t "We want to double down on that to make sure that we go in the other direction," Durkan said.

transcription of interview with Mayor Jenny Durkan reading, in part, Durkan: "We’ve had far too many conflicts and collisions and crashes between pedestrians and bikes and vehicles and streetcars and light rail and we want to double down on that to make sure that we go in the other direction. In a city of our growing size, growing population, we’ve got to do more to protect people, not less."

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Durkan’s office says $25.9 million from the Mercer Mega Block sale will go toward transportation projects, but we don’t yet have a project list. Background on the sale from

@_B_Contreras_

here:

seattletimes.com

Seattle moves to sell Mercer Mega Block to developer for $143.5M

Developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities is known for developing life-science and technology campuses. Mayor Jenny Durkan said $5 million of the sale would go to homelessness programs.

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Heidi Groover

@heidigroover

Aug 14, 2019

I also asked about fare enforcement on the streetcar, which I covered here: seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t Durkan: “I think the vision for America should be free transit… I don’t think that government should be focusing its resources on how do we punish people.”

transcription of an interview with Mayor Jenny Durkan. In response to a question about whether there should be fare enforcement on the streetcar, Durkan said in part: "I think we have to get a whole lot more information about why there’s a disconnect between the ridership and the fare and I think our priority should be to make transit available and accessible, not in trying to kick people off transit."

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Heidi Groover

@heidigroover

Aug 14, 2019

(Also she joked about the bus lane vigilantes, "I’m going to get those people with the red flags and give them ticket books." Not exactly the official city line yesterday.)

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