The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Should express bus that parallel forthcoming light rail lines be scrapped when Sound Transit's Link expands? NPI says no. |
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| Published at: | 3:49 PM on Friday, May 10th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | The chamber voted overwhelmingly to adopt a transportation budget for 2019-2021 (ESHB 1160) developed by the House Transportation Committee, chaired by Jake Fey. |
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| Published at: | 12:32 PM on Friday, March 29th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | NPI is urging a group of Washington State House Democrats to abandon legislation that would reduce revenue for Sound Transit projects in an Eyman-like fashion. |
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| Published at: | 11:29 PM on Monday, February 25th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | With a sixty acre former landfill site available, there's no need to tear down homes, businesses, and churches for the agency's new train yard. |
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| Published at: | 10:15 PM on Friday, February 8th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | The leaders of Washington State and British Columbia say we should build on the success of Amtrak Cascades, not destroy it, as Tim Eyman wants to do. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Friday, February 8th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | "If enacted, the initiative would divert a significant amount of tax revenues away from implementing voter-approved transit projects.," the agency says. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Monday, January 21st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA_Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | I-976 is a recipe for horrific highway gridlock, derelict roads, and stranded travelers. Think traffic is bad now? I-976 would make it much worse. |
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| Published at: | 1:04 PM on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | In the event of a large earthquake, the new SR 99 tunnel will be by far the safest place to be, according to seismic experts. Learn why. |
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| Published at: | 2:04 PM on Monday, January 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Emergency Preparedness |
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| Excerpt: | Puget Sound's Regional Transportation Authority has secured two big wins heading into the Thanksgiving holiday. |
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| Published at: | 7:50 PM on Monday, November 19th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | The main lesson here is that it pays to invest in well engineered, carefully thought out stations instead of trying to save a few bucks here and there on things like escalators -- especially to appease naysayers who will never be happy. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 27th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | The new tunnel, which will carry trains underneath the city center, is approximately one third of a mile long (1,985 linear feet, to be specific). |
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| Published at: | 6:21 PM on Friday, July 20th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | Disgraced initiative promoter Tim Eyman declared this morning that he's ready to have another go at whacking Sound Transit and WSDOT's Amtrak Cascades, claiming that he now has $500,000 with which to launch a signature drive for Initiative 976. |
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| Published at: | 5:25 PM on Monday, April 16th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Today, Sound Transit is concluding the comment period for the first phase of early scoping on the voter-approved Ballard and West Seattle Link light rail extensions. Read the comments that NPI submitted to Sound Transit regarding issues we believe should be studied as part of the planning for each extension. |
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| Published at: | 5:51 PM on Monday, March 5th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Robert Cruickshank |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Transportation |
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| Excerpt: | Tim Eyman's losing streak keeps getting longer.... and that's a very good thing for the people of Washington State. |
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| Published at: | 5:25 PM on Friday, December 29th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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