By Fred Felleman and Hamdi Mohamed Special to The Seattle Times The Seattle Tacoma International Airport is the nation’s fastest-growing airport of its size with over 400,000 flights carrying 50.8 million passengers in 2023. As a result, it continues to undergo extensive renovations that create jobs to build and operate the new facilities. Less obvious
Port Package Update Survey: more questions than answers
Including only a third of the homes is not the half of it As we’ve been reporting, the Port Package Update program, now called the Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program has had pitfalls at every turn. The most obvious concern we had is that the survey was sent to 3,200 homes, which is only a
Let’s fix the program to fix Port Packages!
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