Revised transportation levy: What’s in it for West Seattle? Sign up today for WS Chamber lunch on Wednesday

(WSB photo from May 6th levy-revision announcement)
What’s in it for West Seattle? The next discussion of the revised city transportation levy is set for this Wednesday at the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce‘s monthly lunch meeting, 11:30 am at The Kenney (WSB sponsor). City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, seen in our photo (above) speaking at last week’s announcement, will be there with at least one SDOT rep, updating the proposal announced last week. Today’s your last chance to register at the earlybird price, $25 members/$35 nonmembers – sign up here.

TGL1 May 11, 2015 (12:03 pm)

Read it through and I believe you’ll agree that the answer to the question, “what’s in it for WS?” is, not very much.

Granted, $900M isn’t a huge amount spread over all the city’s needs but giving the few blocks of Fauntelroy a road diet (one that’s controversial), and moving the Lander St. overpass further down the road to construction (not actually BUILDING IT, mind you), is essentially a pat on the head to WS residents who are in dire need of ACTUAL progress on our ingress/egress problem.

And let’s not forget that this is another regressive take exclusively from the pocketbooks of the homeowners and renters.

Not convinced this makes sense for our growing and transportation-hurting community.

PJK May 11, 2015 (1:50 pm)

As always, not convenient considering it’s the middle of a workday and commuting to/from the University District takes 90 minutes each way! Attend an evening meeting? Depends on how long the evening commute takes whether that’s doable.

WSB May 11, 2015 (2:00 pm)

The West Seattle Chamber of Commerce almost always meets at lunch time … most of its members are West Seattle businesses. Not an official city meeting, though, and I believe more of those are coming up – the city webpage doesn’t seem to be updated yet:
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http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ltms_involved.htm