Where transportation fits into ‘Seattle 2035’ comprehensive plan

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Years in the making, the city’s “Seattle 2035” comprehensive-plan update is moving toward finalization. With transportation being one of West Seattle’s hottest issues, you might be interested in that specific section of Seattle 2035, which gets a briefing at the City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee next Tuesday (June 21st) at 2 pm. The map above, setting a goal of 35% single-occupancy-vehicle trips for our area, is in both of the following documents linked to the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting:

*Presentation (slide deck)
*Memo

The documents go into added detail about the focus on “mode share” – moving the same number of people with fewer vehicles – and other parts of the transportation philosophy in the proposed plan. Following up on this briefing, and in advance of others before committees handling topics that correlate to other parts of the plan (the dates are all in the slide deck linked above), a public hearing on the overall Seattle 2035 plan is set for June 27th, 6 pm, at City Hall – full details here, including how to comment on the plan via e-mail before then.

3 Replies to "Where transportation fits into 'Seattle 2035' comprehensive plan"

  • dsa June 17, 2016 (4:54 pm)

    I can’t find existing Drive Alone Mode Share”.  Instead they try to compare “2035 Drive Alone Mode Share” with “2004 Existing Level of Service”.  I mean really, that is something different and *twelve* years out of date. 

    I just wanted to see how much of an impact this 35% was going to make as it will be used for justification for taking more lanes, less parking etc.  Downtown is set at 18%, but what is it now?  And how did the city come up with these numbers?  Yes I have read the memo, which also has a problem or two especially concerning the assumption of the v/c ratio.

    • Victoria June 26, 2016 (2:16 pm)

      Good questions. Hope you will send to the Seattle City Council.

  • why_cause June 17, 2016 (5:06 pm)

    We tried to be one less car on the road yesterday by using the bus to go to a game at Century Link Field.  We waited over an hour at a bus stop waiting for a 120 back to WS.    The first bus simply passed the stop because it was so full.  The next bus scheduled just never showed and then finally a bus came 10 minutes after the third schedule arrival time for a bus.  It was so packed that we may have left people behind.  I was crammed in the back and couldn’t see much at that point.  Next time we will be another car on the road.  No one is going to give up their cars for unreliable service.

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