After an amazing nine-month campaign, it was a thrill to see the first election returns on Tuesday night. When the evening began, we were optimistic about our chances but expected the results to be close. Instead, we celebrated a resounding and decisive victory.
I’m excited by what this election says about our city and our region. [...]

Robert Rosencrantz is at it again.

First, he apologized for mailing an attack piece to 100,000 Seattle households that misrepresented both my position AND his own position on tolling. He said he was taking tolling off the table.

Now he says he’s going to go back to telling tolling tall tales. His reason? Because I pointed [...]

State government is actively pursuing tolls to fund transportation projects.  The new Tacoma Narrows bridge is funded almost completely with tolls, while variable electronic tolls are now being used on a lane of SR 167.  Tolls are planned as a major revenue source for replacement of the SR 520 floating bridge.  And $400 million in [...]

Yesterday, the Seattle City Council’s Transportation Committee rushed through a curious document called the “MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT for the ALASKAN WAY VIADUCT AND SEAWALL REPLACEMENT PROGRAM BORED TUNNEL ALTERNATIVE.”

This Memorandum of Agreement (let’s just call it the MOA) is between the city and the state. Under this MOA, the city [...]

Earlier this week, we learned of the impending closure of the Wallingford Senior Center. The center provides social and health services, meals, classes, and much more for 1,500 seniors. For many of them it is a lifeline—a source for social interaction, connection, support, and friendship, and a place to go for a game of cards, [...]

Thank you—with your support, we earned a decisive victory in Tuesday’s primary and set the stage for a strong campaign in the general election. Every one of you played a critical role. Whether you volunteered to make phone calls or to go door-to-door, donated to help our efforts to reach [...]

I appreciated reading John Odland’s opinions and thoughts about the deep-bore tunnel in Crosscut this morning. I’d like to address a few of the inaccuracies in his article and point readers to supporting documents so they can judge for themselves what the facts are.
In paragraph one, Mr. Odland states that my preferred alternative was rejected by [...]

A poll released earlier this week by researchers at the UW shows that Seattle voters have a better understanding than the current crop of elected politicians that addressing the region’s transportation problems should be our top priority.In the poll of 600 people likely to vote in the August 18 primary election, 30 percent [...]

In 2007, I was appointed to a panel that was asked by Governor Gregoire and the State Department of Transportation to figure out what to do about the Alaskan Way Viaduct. This Stakeholder Advisory Committee included 29 men and women from a wide range of business, environmental and community groups. The entire process was organized [...]

We all feel the negative impacts of years of short-sighted and outmoded approaches to transportation planning in our city and our region. Today, we spend far too much time stuck in our cars in traffic. The high cost of moving freight on our congested roads adds to the cost of living for our citizens and [...]