Washington Governor Chris Gregoire, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, King County Executive Ron Sims and Port of Seattle CEO Tay Yoshitani made the formal announcement Jan. 13, 2009 that they are recommending a deep bore tunnel and related infrastructure work to replace the earthquake prone Alaskan Way Viaduct along State Route 99 in downtown Seattle. Following are links to some of Read More ›
This article, published by Seattle PI, mentions Discovery Institute: The agency is beginning to examine whether commuter rail would work along the corridor in a $340,000 study — due by February — funded by the Legislature, Sound Transit and private funds raised by the Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found here.
In Austin, Texas, people take their government seriously. That may be the most important lesson the Seattle Chamber learned from a recent three-day Seattle-Austin meeting in the Texas capital, where transportation, technology, culture and music, energy and governance were all on the agenda. Austin isn’t your typical Texas town. Its own mayor, with a made-for-politics name, Will Wynn, described his Read More ›
This article, published by the Woodinville Weekly, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Bruce Agnew: Bruce Agnew, director of the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center for Regional Development, said that he gave Ron Sims a lot of credit for recognizing the common-sense notion of using the corridor for a regional trail and for a transportation corridor. The rest of the article can Read More ›
This article, published by The Seattle Times, mentions Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: But keeping the tracks would preserve the ballast underneath and make it much easier to install new, modern tracks, said Bruce Agnew, director of the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center think tank, which has pushed for commuter rail. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by Seattle PI, quotes Matt Rosenberg of Discovery Institute: “That’s definitely a good thing,” said Matt Rosenberg of the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center for Regional Development, a Seattle transportation think tank that advocates running self-propelled diesel passenger train cars on the tracks. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by the Woodinville Weekly, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: The Cascadia Center for Regional Development, a transportation policy think tank, made a big push at the end of last year to promote utilizing the existing corridor for both transit and trail. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article contains an interview with Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew about Eastside Rail on the Dave Ross Show. Here is the MP3 audio file of the interview during the second hour of the Dave Ross Show on 12/14/07.
This article, published by The Everett Herald, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: That proposal has been advanced by the Cascadia Center, the transportation arm of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, a private think tank. The rest of the article can be found here.