SR-509 Surplus, a tale of two cities

Figure A. SR-509 Surplus at 216th St.

Background information on SR-509 WSDOT Surplus purchases by SeaTac and Des Moines along the 18th Ave Corridor For decades WSDOT owned surplus property along a corridor roughly parallel to 18th Ave., from 194th St. in SeaTac south through Des Moines as part of a previous plan for SR-509. The final (very different) alignment for SR-509

Elevated: 75th Anniversary Movie Premiere

Q&A: Casey McNerthney, Lance Lyttle, Elizabeth Levitt, Oris Dunham

You can handle 100,000,000 passengers a year… Today, at the Boeing Museum Of Flight, the Port of Seattle premiered the first in a series of videos charting the history and growth of Sea-Tac Airport. The videos, collectively titled Elevated, were introduced by Port CEO Stephen Metruck, who spoke about the challenges of continuing to serve

Fifteen Percent?

Below is the 1full text of a letter we received from Ryan McMullan, the Senior Manager for Noise Programs in response to our concerns about the 2024-04 Sound Insulation Repair and Replacement Pilot Program. If you’ve been following along, in May, the Port began an ‘assessment’ phase to last until December 31. This is supposedly

Let’s fix the program to fix Port Packages!

Timeline from Highline Forum SIRRPP Presentation

May 28, 2024 Public Comment to the Port of Seattle Commission on SIRRPP Commissioners, I think it’s fair to say that when we all worked so hard last winter to create a Port Package Update program–now formally known as the Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program (SIRRPP), stakeholders such as our over 1,000 members assumed we’d

Port Package Update Call To Action: Postcards

Make a public comment on May 28th to improve the assessment process After the passage of State law SB5955 and the Port’s Order 2024-04, the Port said it would begin developing a repair/replacement program for failing sound insulation systems (Port Packages). The Order says that the first step was to do an assessment of all

Farm To Fly: Greenwashing at your expense

Proposal would subsidize farmers to grow crops to create aviation fuel The Farm To Fly Act is the most basic reason STNI has never endorsed so-called sustainable aviation fuels. In theory, aviation fuels created exclusively from scrap biomass may pollute less and might create fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. However, the amount of such available material