It’s the terminus for several major bus routes adding a third transfer to south lake union (from bus to link and back to bus) from the many surrounding white-collar neighborhoods will keep people in cars and off transit for years to come. Roosevelt is a car-lite and freeway adjacent neighborhood that is starting to build apartments without parking, raising the opportunity for seriously reducing vehicle trips per person. The decision to cut the line short is a terrible decision for the environment. It is the second fastest growing neighborhood in Seattle by percentage, falling only behind South Lake Union, which is on the other end of the line. Roosevelt is an ideal connection to the RapidRide. Please also sign this online email to the relevant transit leaders and the City and County Council members they report to. Enclosed is a letter from the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association (I sit on the board), laying out the reasons for doing so. The city and county should deliver what the voters approved. Despite this, the city and county quietly closed the comment period on the matter, failing to reverse their already outdated decision. The reason they gave in October was the loss “of anticipated capital and operating funds due to the economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.” But just a few weeks later, the President signed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that invests over $39 billion in transit, one of the biggest rail and bus investments in US history. The Seattle Department of Transportation and King County Metro recently reneged on the voter-approved promise of a Roosevelt RapidRide (J Line) by shortening the line to end in the University District. (Credit: Seattle Department of Transportation)
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