The Cascadia Center
A group turning to trains to improve transportation in Snohomish County has set its sights on a little-used rail line on the Eastside. The group, made up of residents and elected leaders and backed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project, is trying to bring a new kind of high-speed rail car to the Puget Sound region. Burlington Northern Santa Read More ›
The Cascadia Center at Discovery Institute is a member of the Governor’s 2010 Olympics Committee formed to explore economic development, transportation and tourism opportunities for Washington State surrounding the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C.________________________________________________________________It took a group effort for Vancouver to earn the right to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. And the man who’s running the Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Bruce ChapmanDiscovery InstitutePhone: 206.292.0401 x101, E-mail: bchapman@discovery.org Amy LowGMMB (for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)Phone: 206.352.8598, E-mail: amy.low@gmmb.com Discovery Institute to expand efforts to create regional transportation solutions through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationMore than $9 million pledged over 10 years to Cascadia Project SEATTLE — The Discovery Institute today announced a Read More ›
The King County Journal reported yesterday that State Rep. Fred Jarrett, the No. 2 Republican on the House transportation committee, proposed to the state transportation commission that Washington should auction off access to its proposed High-Occupancy/Toll (HOT) lanes on eBay. “If we use the eBay bid process,” Jarrett said, “we’ll find people are willing to pay a significant amount of Read More ›
Excerpted from page 52 of “How Do We Get There From Here,” a transportation report written and published by the Cascadia Project and Discovery Institute. Visit our website to view the entire report, or contact Holly McQueen at 206-292-0401 x120 or hollym@discovery.org if you would like to purchase a hard copy of the report. A new commercial vehicle-only corridor could Read More ›
With the monorail initiative’s passage, there are now seven separate transportation agencies in the Puget Sound region. Some think that’s just nutty. Two organizations, the pro-business Discovery Institute and the more pro-transit Transportation Choices Coalition, have called for the creation of just one superagency that would create a unified strategy for fixing the gridlock. The Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project, which Read More ›
A recent forum held by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Seattle featured state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald and King County Council Member Rob McKenna, who were speaking on state and regional proposals before voters next month and next spring. MacDonald and McKenna are knowledgeable and dedicated public servants. One can’t help but feel a contrast between their sense Read More ›
The quick, pragmatic answer is the national passenger snail service known as Amtrak cannot be allowed to collapse. That means the railway should receive the short-term financing needed to keep it alive through October and into next year.Clearly, however, the three-decades-old Amtrak is a failure as it is now configured. Last week, the Bush administration proposed shifting more of the Read More ›