Transportation in Seattle should serve everyone. It should prioritize transit, pedestrian, and cycling, and continue to accommodate personal vehicles. It should be convenient for people to get around the city without a car, and for businesses to make deliveries. It should be powered by clean electricity.

Improve Alternatives to Auto Ownership & Use

1. Expand transit service to underserved areas

2. Subsidize transit use for low-income residents

3. Increase convenience and safety for travel by transit

4. Increase efficiency and safety for cyclists and pedestrians

5. Accelerate expansion of light rail

6. Adopt Road Usage Fees

7. Support transit-oriented development

8. Reduce building parking requirements

9. Amend zoning to encourage stores, jobs, key services and transit within a 15 minute walk of every resident - the “15 minute community”

Accelerate Conversion to All Electric Vehicles

1. Accelerate system buildout of auto charging infrastructure

2. Accelerate electrification of public fleets

3. Accelerate electrification of private fleets (Uber, UPS, Comcast, ...)

4. Accelerate electrification of transportation network companies (e.g., Uber, Lyft), taxis and local delivery and freight vehicles

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1. Support VehicleLicenseFee(VLF) spending plan on Vision Zero/Multi-modal transportation

2. Support Continued Assessment of Equitable Congestion Pricing/Low Carbon Zone or Road Use Fee

3. Amend zoning to encourage the “15 minute community”

4. Support transit-oriented development

Transportation Package – increase multi-modal spending, fix decaying infrastructure, no highway expansion

Growth Management Act Climate Element

Healthy Home and Clean Buildings – transition off fossil gas, allow city to have stricter residential energy code, provide incentives for electrification

School Bus Electrification – state reimburse local school district for electric bus cost

Broaden Local Transportation Revenue Options – add progressive revenue options and allow transportation districts to use multiple revenue sources

Implement a Per Mile Driven Charge for Electric Vehicles – replace existing flat fee car tab with one that charges per vehicle miles driven

Rebate for Electric Bicycles.– make electric bikes more affordable

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1. Support New Dedicated Bus Lanes

2. Support Continued Assessment of Equitable Congestion Pricing

3. Support Development of plans to electrify public fleets and private school bus fleets

4. Support local development of specific plans for electrification of private fleets

5. Renew Seattle Transportation Benefit District – done!

6. Support zoning changes to encourage 15 minute walk communities.

• The State charges EV vehicles a $150/year fee and hybrid cars $75/year on their vehicle licenses that funds a grant program for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

• The State has a sales tax exemption for vehicles powered by clean alternative fuel, and for certain plug-in hybrids.

• Seattle Transportation Benefit District

• City of Seattle Transportation Demand Management

• Seattle Bicycle Master Plan

• Washington Transportation Needs Assessment 2020