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- Will build 100 blocks of sidewalks, install 100 miles of protected bike lanes, improve 100 crossings, and create 100 miles of Stay Healthy Streets, resulting in safe routes to every school, park and grocery store in the city.
- Will engage our neighbors in context sensitive design to redesign the most dangerous streets in every neighborhood, including the 10 streets with the most crashes citywide.
- Will bring special emphasis to projects in South Seattle around Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Rainier Avenue, and Beacon Avenue where communities of color have been asking for safe transportation routes due to disproportionately high fatalities and injuries.
- Will prioritize transportation investments for those communities who have been actually harmed by prior transportation investments like I-5 cutting through the International District, or those communities who have not received enough investment in the past like Southeast Seattle’s lack of bike infrastructure.
- Will ensure everyone in Seattle has convenient and affordable access to an electric bike or scooter to make it easier to safely travel around our city without the high cost of owning a car.
- Will make our bus stops more accessible with bus shelters, benches, and loading platforms.
- Will ensure elevators are operating at light rail stops and that people can get to the stations safely through sidewalks, crosswalks, and other transit.
- Will build more curb ramps, more crosswalks, and fix broken sidewalks.
- Will pursue a plan to fully connect our city, and focus on speeding up ST3 to connect West Seattle, Ballard, Uptown and South Lake Union. We’ll do this in partnership with community organizations working to ensure the economic development that accompanies light rail expansion doesn’t lead to more displacement and gentrification, and includes design that focuses on physical improvements that will serve the people with deep roots in these neighborhoods.
- Will implement a comprehensive network that provides services for all neighborhoods with accessible connections to frequent transit and the light rail spine.
- Will create 100 miles of bus-only lanes, with an emphasis on east/west routes across our city, making bus rides faster and more reliable.
- Will develop a new master plan that provides a vision of what equitable and inclusive transportation looks like in Seattle. This plan will include all transit modes: light rail, BRT, local bus, streetcar, pedestrian, bike and micro-mobility options to ensure people who rely on multiple modes of transit for a single trip experience fewer delays transferring between modes.
- Will move towards free transit for all trips in the city, funded through a collaboration with regional, state, and federal partners.
- Will provide affordable programs to expand mobility options for low income households such as carshare, rideshare and bike- or scooter-share.
- Building high speed rail to connect our region and create better access to jobs and housing is a high priority. Connecting Seattle to Portland and Vancouver B.C. with high speed trains also means connecting Seattle to Tacoma, Olympia, Everett, Bellingham and other communities.
- Will work with partners and community stakeholders to identify a long-term strategy to adequately fund and maintain our bridges and other infrastructure.
- Must focus available resources on sustainably growing the maintenance investments for important needs like sidewalk maintenance and crosswalk markings to ensure our city’s most basic infrastructure serves everyone’s needs.
- Will support the concept of studying equitable mobility pricing to not only help fund future bridge replacement, but also create a more equitable transportation system with investments in transit and neighborhood safety in disadvantaged communities.
- Will expand on the metrics developed in the 2017 Moving the Needle report and updates process to add context-appropriate goals developed by specific communities and measure things people care about rather than just the systems that support them.