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Seattle struggling to pay for new bike lanes
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:39 AM Author: Vivacious carnelian chad blood rage lol at Seattle trying to tax productive businesses for homeless gibs while sinking in a BIKE LANE quagmire and oh yeah the former mayor was a pedophile. i'm not sure i would ever move to Seattle for any reason whatsoever at this point.
Seattle struggling to pay for bike lanes, as costs for 'visionary' project balloon to $12 million per mile: report Gregg Re By Gregg Re | Fox News
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Seattle is struggling to pay for bike lanes.
Seattle is struggling to pay for bike lanes. (Reuters)
The cost of Seattle's ongoing effort to build bike lanes has ballooned to up to $12 million a mile, in another setback for the progressive city's leadership that has repeatedly spent big on social projects only to realize less-than-stellar results.
Seattle officials are apparently so embarrassed by the pricey cycling routes that they have been conducting quiet "soft launches" for new lanes instead of hosting splashy ribbon-cutting ceremonies, The Seattle Times reported.
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Voters in Seattle approved a so-called "Move Seattle" transportation levy in 2015 to the tune of $930M, but the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has since admitted that the cost estimates it used to pitch the project to voters were not well-founded.
“We do not have enough funding right now to do everything that was promised, we just don’t,” SDOT interim Director Goran Sparrman said in April. “Some of those dollar amounts estimated for what projects would cost were clearly insufficient, even at the time.”
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Due to rising infrastructure costs and poor estimates by city officials, Seattle's average for bike-lane building has risen from $1M to $2M per mile, The Seattle Times reported.
That's significantly more than the $860,000 total that former mayor Ed Murray cited in proposing the levy, and quadruple comparable national averages, the paper reported. Amazon bluntly states it's now questioning its growth in Seattle after the city council passes a 'head tax' the city says will help curb the area's homelessness problem.
Analysts say the levy estimates failed to properly account for all the added costs of building new bike lanes, including the installation of necessary traffic signals and sidewalk retrofits.
It's a significant comedown for an initiative that Seattle's official website still calls "visionary" for its potential to provide "safer streets, better roads, and more reliable transit options."
But the setbacks haven't deterred the city's cyclists, who converged on Seattle's City Hall on Bike Everywhere Day earlier this month, blocking traffic and demanding even more bike lanes, according to local reports.
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The financial missteps are just the latest for Seattle's progressive leadership, which has advanced other expensive social projects that critics have called inefficient and unsuccessful.
For example, Seattle's first-in-the-nation $15 per hour minimum wage law actually hurt the workers it aimed to help, a study found last year.
And earlier this month, Starbucks and Amazon blasted Seattle's decision to slap a new “head tax” on businesses to pay for homeless services and affordable housing -- saying the government's own lack of efficiency is to blame for the city’s woes. |
Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:43 AM Author: beady-eyed scarlet degenerate black woman "The cost of Seattle's ongoing effort to build bike lanes has ballooned to up to $12 million a mile"
200 boomers with their saggy asses packed into bike shorts picketing city hall chanting "worth it at any cost! worth it at any cost!" |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:43 AM Author: Ebony Slippery Plaza How is this even possible. It's a 4 foot wide strip of asphalt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110515) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:44 AM Author: Sienna pontificating gaping karate you're allowed to ride bikes on sidewalks in seattle. why not just keep things the way they are? it's not like it's a super crowded city like nyc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110518) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:23 AM Author: Crystalline Insane National riding your bike on the sidewalk is probably more dangerous than riding on the road, tbh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110651) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:46 AM Author: sooty thriller dysfunction depressive They've also installed ridiculously confusing bicycle traffic signals that have already caused fatal accidents:
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:49 AM Author: Vivacious carnelian chad blood rage lmao wtf even is this. "ok we're good to go!" *dies* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110534) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:50 AM Author: Flatulent primrose theater stage dopamine doesnt look that confusing. its green, bikes can go. now if its designed poorly, thats another issue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110536) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:52 AM Author: Sienna pontificating gaping karate why spend the money to install bike lights when bikers could just follow the normal lights like they're supposed to do in NYC? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110543) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:54 AM Author: Flatulent primrose theater stage dopamine this i cannot answer, i thought they were supposed to follow the same rules as motor vehicles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110547) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:57 AM Author: twinkling soul-stirring ape Some connected lib owns a traffic light factory (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110555) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:20 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Disturbing Nibblets Multi-billionaire If a bike lane is to the right or left of traffic, there are issues with bikes going straight while cars turn. High risk of impact. This solves those problems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110630) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:21 AM Author: Sienna pontificating gaping karate "solves" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110636) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:52 AM Author: Federal private investor coldplay fan "For example, Seattle's first-in-the-nation $15 per hour minimum wage law actually hurt the workers it aimed to help, a study found last year."
wow nobody predicted that one |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:04 AM Author: odious wild fortuitous meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110580) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:10 AM Author: Mind-boggling Disrespectful Athletic Conference Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110600) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:13 AM Author: sable histrionic heaven dragon Seattle residents are the ultimate cucks for not voting these faggots out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110608) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:18 AM Author: odious wild fortuitous meteor "you're gonna reap just what you sow...." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110626) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:24 AM Author: Opaque embarrassed to the bone becky chapel 12 milliona’? Does that include pension contribution? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984453&forum_id=2#36110653) |