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^{Lance Dickie
April 15, 2010
Cascadia}

Stay focused on rails and trails on the Eastside

_{Lance Dickie
April 15, 2010
Cascadia}

The daily commute is going to change from the pavement up, and it will be for the better if we have the imagination and wit not to go with the traffic flow. Changes great and small are coming. In May, the 42-mile Eastside rail corridor, which the Port of Seattle recently bought from BNSF Railway, will be parsed out and resold to King County, Sound Transit, the City of Redmond and two regional utilities. All those entities will help the Port recover its $81 million purchase price as they acquire ownership and easements to maintain freight service in the corridor, develop passenger rail and bicycles trails, and plan water and power lines. More. Read More ›

^{PI Politics Team
February 23, 2010
Cascadia}

McGinn to Microsoft on 520: Walk the talk

_{PI Politics Team
February 23, 2010
Cascadia}

520 bridge

Microsoft's announcement on its stance in moving forward with replacing the 520 bridge elicited some sharp jabs Tuesday from Seattle political leaders:

State Sen. Ed Murray said it was like a "punch in the face," and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn implied that Microsoft was being a hypocrite. "I think when you're trying to bring people together, it's like a punch in the face. It's hardly a constructive tactic. I'm not sure it hurts in any way, but it certainly doesn't help," said Murray, who earlier this month joined McGinn, House Speaker Frank Chopp and Rep. Jamie Pedersen to support an option with mass transit-only lanes for replacing 520. ... During the Microsoft news conference, company officials pointed out that 5,000 employees use the bridge. They talked about Microsoft's Connector shuttle, a private transit system that hauls 4,200 employees per day and relies on the bridge. That touches on an issue that's so far been missing from the 520 debate, said Bruce Agnew, director of Discovery Institute's Cascadia Center for Regional Development, a transportation policy research center. ... "Microsoft is speaking up when other regional leaders should be," he said. More Read More ›

^{Katherine Long
February 4, 2010
Cascadia}

Eastside commuter rail and bike trail could be built fast, some say

_{Katherine Long
February 4, 2010
Cascadia}

Three members of the Bellevue City Council were all ears Wednesday night when a California rails-and-trails advocacy group told how they mustered voter support for a 70-mile commuter rail line through Marin and Sonoma counties — complete with a bike trail along the entire route. Why are rails-with-trails so interesting to Eastsiders? Because the Port of Seattle last year purchased the BNSF Railwayrail corridor, which runs through the Eastside from Renton to Woodinville, and on to the town of Snohomish in Snohomish County. There's a $50 million chunk of voter-approved money in the Sound Transit budget that could be used in partnership with a private firm to help get a commuter train running on the BNSF corridor. More Read More ›

^{Peter Severinson
February 3, 2010
Cascadia}

Cascadia: The New Frontier

_{Peter Severinson
February 3, 2010
Cascadia}

Cascadia Map Ever since Vancouver won the bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, there has been a strong effort to market the event as “Canada’s Games.” It’s only natural, of course: the federal government wants to use the Olympics to enhance our national identity, and VANOC wants to gain a national scope to raise the commercial value of Olympic sponsorships.

But still, when international visitors get their first glimpses of Vancouver as they pass the stunning Haida and Coast Salish art at YVR’s international terminal, when they catch their first whiff of ocean air outside the arrivals doors, when the SkyTrain crests that first ridge on the trip downtown, revealing the dramatic cut of the North Shore mountains, is it really Canada our guests will see? The centre of Canada, after all – not just geographically but also in terms of culture, commerce, industry and politics – is far from here. Vancouver has much more in common, on all those fronts, with our neighbours in Seattle and Portland than we do with our counterparts in Calgary and Montreal. And there’s little doubt that, as far as the Olympics is concerned, Seattle has much more to gain than Saskatoon – or even Kelowna. That is why there’s an equally strong effort, on the part of many people in the Pacific northwest, to claim these 2010 Games as their own and to use the 16-day event as a springboard for advancing what has, to this point, been a rather abstract notion of cross-border regional unity. That notion is called Cascadia. More. Read More ›

^{Mike Wussow
February 2, 2010
Cascadia}

Bruce Agnew Discusses Sustainable Freight Transportation

_{Mike Wussow
February 2, 2010
Cascadia}

Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute's Bruce Agnew recently became the chair a NAFTA-chartered commission focused on the issue of sustainable freight transportation. More Read More ›

^{Cascadia Center
January 28, 2010
Cascadia}

Transportation advocates applaud state’s receipt of federal high-speed rail funding

_{Cascadia Center
January 28, 2010
Cascadia}

Seattle, Wash. (Jan. 28, 2010)—Three leading advocacy organizations in Washington State hailed White House announcements granting Washington State $590 million to further develop intercity passenger rail along the Cascades Corridor between Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore. Bruce Agnew, director of Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute said, “Washington fared well because the state’s grant was superb, and our partners in Washington, Read More ›

^{Ross Reynolds
December 16, 2009
Cascadia}

Most Overlooked News Of 2009 – Tunnel Differences

_{Ross Reynolds
December 16, 2009
Cascadia}

This article contains an interview with the Cascadia Center’s Bruce Agnew. You can listen to the interview here.

^{Derek Moscato
December 7, 2009
Cascadia}

Road Tolling May Be A Necessary Evil For Vancouver

_{Derek Moscato
December 7, 2009
Cascadia}

This article, published by The Star, references the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: A few hours south of here, Matt Rosenberg, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center, is making a strong case for regional tolling for the Seattle metropolitan area. Rosenberg says cities like Seattle and Vancouver need to get serious about road tolling not only to Read More ›

^{Bruce Agnew
November 21, 2009
Cascadia}

Melding Rich History, Promising Future

_{Bruce Agnew
November 21, 2009
Cascadia}

When state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen cuts the ribbon to open the new Stanwood train station today, it will be back to the future for the Stanwood-Camano Island area. For an area rich in history of lumber mills, fish canneries, steamboats and trains, the new station represents a remarkable new opportunity to expand travel options for commuting, attending major events Read More ›

^{Rich Lyons
November 20, 2009
Cascadia}

Bruce Agnew In Radio News Segment On Eastside Rail & Trail

_{Rich Lyons
November 20, 2009
Cascadia}

Radio news segments aired about the Eastside Rail and Trail that have soundbites from Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew. The two soundbites can be found here and here.