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Articles by Tara Peattie

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Monorail Democracy Now

Tara Peattie joins the push for a democratically elected Seattle Popular Transit Authority to oversee the future of the Monorail.

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Viaduct: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

The Alaska Way Viaduct must go. Will it go slowly and expensively, with planning, or quickly and perhaps more cheaply with the next major earthquake? And what will replace it? Tara Peattie addresses the question.

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Wonkish ETC Board Disdains Voters

It's time for the Elevated Transportation Company to decide how members of its successor organization will be selected. Will they choose to elect or appoint the people who will take Monorail ahead?

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Washington Secretary of Transportation Doug McDonald dismisses monorail, and local bicycle activists in Ballard try to keep the "missing link" of the Burk-Gilman Trail in the works.

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A Colonnade Park for Eastlake?

The Eastlake Community Council has a novel idea for the strip of land running along just West of I-5: make it into a park.

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Give the People What they Want, (Like The Kinks Said)

Monorail victories through the years: all just practice for this November's big vote.

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Gas Tax - Highway Robbery?

It looks like higher gas taxes are coming our way; both houses of the legislature have competing transportation packages that include gas tax increases that'll add up to a buck or two extra each time we fill the tank.

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A Valentine to Sound Transit

Columnist Tara Peattie says it's time for a revote on light rail, and maybe commuter rail too.

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Belltown Bound

How will the monorail get through Belltown? And where will a proposed northbound bike lane go?

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City Drops Ball; County Encourages Sprawl

King County has signed an agreement to buy nearly a third of Simon Properties' Northgate South Lot. The property will be used to double the number of park-and-ride spaces serving the Northgate transit station.

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The ETC has a bridge (or two) to sell

The monorail line that will serve Ballard and West Seattle must somehow cross the Ship Canal and leap up to West Seattle. Tara Peattie asks how.

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Burke-Gilman Trail through Ballard: Can the Shilshole Speedway be Tamed?

The Burke-Gilman Trail recently drew one step nearer connecting to its final rest stop at Golden Gardens Park in Ballard, at least on paper.

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Monorail Routes are Being Refined

The Elevated Transportation Company's monorail planning is gliding along swiftly and smoothly, if not so quietly as an actual monorail would run. Find out where it will go and how you can get involved.

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Aurora Avenue Business Endangered by State Traffic Planning?

Washington State Department of Transportation's long range plan calls for potentially eliminating street parking along Aurora.

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Sound Transit's Betrayals

After the Sound Transit Board's vote a couple weeks ago to build Link light rail south, opposition rumblings hit a low roar.