City approves sale of Tacoma to Mount Rainier railroad track thenewstribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenewstribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While Washington state saw a 16 percent increase in road deaths between 2020 and 2021, Pierce County saw a 34 percent year-to-year jump, alerting officials of the dire need for road safety reform.
A new law allows Sound Transit to run city-specific ballot measures that would fund faster project delivery, expanded service or better infrastructure.
Pierce Transit considers eliminating hundreds of bus stops in hopes of faster service Craig Sailor, The News Tribune
Pierce Transit is considering the elimination of 407 bus stops nearly 20% across Pierce County in an effort to make bus travel more efficient. First, it wants to hear from riders.
The transit agency pitched the plan, called Bus Stop Balancing, to the Tacoma City Council on Tuesday. Some 212 of the proposed retired stops would be within the city’s boundaries. The agency currently serves 2,114 stops.
The goal is to speed up bus service and produce cost savings that could lead to more service, said Pierce Transit spokeswoman Rebecca Japhet.
Matt Driscoll: Can urban design be racist? Yes, according to local leaders, and here s how to fix it
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1/21/2021 Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Jan. 21 Asked for an example of how urban design can have unintended racist consequences, Lauren Flemister didn t hesitate.
Just look at light rail projects, she said, and specifically the Tacoma Link extension currently being laid down on Hilltop.
While the multi-million dollar street car project will run through and serve a historically Black neighborhood that has long suffered from neglect and disinvestment, we also know that it s already exacerbating a trend of displacement and gentrification that predates it, Flemister said.