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Seattle Community Network |
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June 19, 2000 |
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June 19
"Phase 2 - January, 2001 through December, 2001 "During Phase 2 a consultant and engineering firm will provide a corridor level analysis of the corridors identified in figure 1 [Potential Monorail Service Corridors]... "The phase 2 product will be a recommendation of a primary route or routes and thorough analysis of the costs, ridership and engineering feasibility of that route or routes. ... "No attempt has been made to duplicate or replace the corridors to be served by the Sound Transit Light Rail Lines. ... "Midway through phase 2, the consultant and engineering team will issue a preliminary report identifying the corridors that are most likely to be feasible for future development. ... The public involvement process will intensify at this time... in June 2002, the phase 2 team will issue its final report including a recommendation for the primary route or routes, supported by engineering, financial and community impact analysis. "Salary expense during this period includes one additional person. That person's primary responsibility is to work with the communities affected by the STI designated corridors. Staff will design and implement a preliminary community involvement process intended to quantify the level of community support and opposition in the STI corridors. "Staff also will work with all of the other transportation agencies in the region to ensure that the engineering work and overall planning provides the maximum opportunities for integrating the primary and secondary monorail routes into all of the existing and planned transportation systems. "Rent and other overhead expenses rise from $5,000 per month to $7,000 per month, reflecting the increased level of activity."
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June 18 - 24
Seattle Site of the Week:  
Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq
"CCPI is working to end the U.N. / U.S. economic sanctions on Iraq. This August will mark the start of the 11th year of the trade embargo, which combined with the Gulf War targeting of civilian infrastructure has impoverished the Iraqi population and visited brutal effects on those most vulnerable. "According to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), the sanctions have directly contributed to the deaths of half a million children under age five and continue to contribute to over 5,000 'excess' children's deaths per month. "The sanctions against Iraq have been widely condemned as a form of warfare, a weapon of mass destruction, directed against the civilian population. Among their effects are collapse of the economy, widespread chronic malnutrition, and breakdown of the public health system. "However, sanctions are being maintained at the insistence of our U.S. administration. As Seattle Times editor Mindy Cameron recently wrote, 'Last month, [I was] asked the question that lingers: Someday, when the world knows what went on in Iraq after the Gulf War, they will say to Americans, "Where were you guys?"' "Visit the CCPI web site, contact us at (206) 789-5565 or bp307@scn.org, or attend an upcoming event to HELP END THE SILENT SLAUGHTER OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ." - Andrew Fung |
