Notices by Ryan Packer (typewriteralley@towns.gay)

NEW: Despite the fact that fatalities and serious injuries nearly doubled on Tacoma's roadways between 2019 and 2023, the city's proposed budget for the next two years would reduce $900,000 in Vision Zero funding to just $90,000, a 90% decrease.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/18/tacoma-set-to-slash-vision-zero/

Seattle CM Bob Kettle used his platform at the Puget Sound Regional Council this morning to allege that road diets and bike lanes can "make it difficult" for fire departments to respond to emergencies. He had no data to back this up.

As the state unveils its high-profile rebate program for electric personal cars, I checked in on progress toward launching the statewide e-bike rebate funded by the legislature last year. TL;DR: No date yet, but it's coming.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/04/30/statewide-e-bike-rebate-program/

A big scoop this morning at @urbanistorg: we have the growth plan for Seattle created by planners - before Mayor Harrell's office intervened. It included twice as many denser "neighborhood centers."
Story by @dmtrumm https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/04/16/planners-proposed-bigger-upzones-before-harrells-team-intervened-records-show/

A short stretch of protected bike lane on West Marginal Way has become a symbol to freight advocates of a push to take away space on a "major truck street." The project is moving forward, but Seattle's freight board is still pushing back.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/03/03/freight-advisory-board-isnt-ready-to-stop-fighting-west-marginal-way-bike-lane/

Wild to continue to engineer a car-centric society, but drop the part where we train people to even navigate it.