Nov 4, 2013 | Transportation Choices
It was an unseasonably dry and warm October evening, and I was on my way to the Tacoma leg of the Senate Transportation Listening Tour. I strapped my lights to my bike and took off from my home in the Central Tacoma Neighborhood to the Evergreen State College Campus....
Nov 2, 2013 | Transportation Choices
Tomorrow’s election may be an “off-year,” but it’s not an off year for transit! In Okanogan County, a county as large as the entire state of Connecticut, has formed a public transit authority and is asking voters for a 0.4% sales tax increase to fund...
Oct 31, 2013 | Transportation Choices
What does equity mean? When it comes to transportation and conversations around transportation investments in the Puget Sound region, what considerations to ensure equity must be made? Last week in Pierce County, the Tacoma Equity Network held a summit which aimed at...
Oct 25, 2013 | Transportation Choices
250 in Tacoma, 400 in Bellevue, 450 in Seattle. Across the state on the Senate Transportation Listening tour, transit advocates have turned out in huge numbers. Thanks to you, we’ve packed rooms, sent thousands of comments, waited in line to testify. Legislators have...
Oct 25, 2013 | Transportation Choices
As part of Try Transit Month, Tacoma’s Downtown On the Go (DOTG) hosted a transit-powered zoo adventure on Oct 19, 2013. After meeting at the historic Wright Park in downtown Tacoma, participants were provided with free ORCA cards and guidance on reading bus maps and...
