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Same in Spokane. With a supermajority on council and a willing mayor, we have to run as fast as possible on issues like safe streets, transit, and urban infill.

STA Partners With Transit App to Bring Premium Trip-Planning Features to Local Riders - Spokane Transit Authority Spokane Transit is announcing a new partnership with Transit App, one of the world’s most popular apps for navigating cities by bus, walking, or biking.

Spokane Transit just bought Transit app’s premium tier subscription (Royale) for every resident.

Our small city’s transit agency is punching waaaaay above its weight

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Spokane is lucky to have you here!

We will be there on Monday to voice our support!

This is really really cool for a few reasons. It functions as a wealth tax in a way by imposing hire tax burdens on parking lot owners, which are mostly out-of-city millionaires. It will also incentivize more development up rather than out, which is great for housing

This tax is essential to balancing Spokane's budget deficit while continuing the progress we're making on transportation and housing.

It is essential that community members show up and speak out in support of this transformative legislation.

Revenues from this new tax will be used to fund Spokane's people-first transportation infrastructure program, including projects like the redesign of Spokane Falls Boulevard.

The ordinance will be briefed on Monday at noon in City Council's Finance and Administration Committee meeting.

Parking 2 People Incentive This incentive helps stimulate the redevelopment of vacant or underdeveloped property, through a 10-year limited sales-and-use-tax deferral program.

This tax would work together with our Parking to People incentive, which eliminates the sales tax on construction of new housing on vacant parking lots across the city.

Spokane was the first and is still the only city in Washington to enact this stellar incentive tool.

Carrot + stick = ???

News: Mayor Lisa Brown's office (@mayorspokane.bsky.social) is proposing a new tax of 12% on gross receipts from commercial parking across Spokane, as a way to encourage new housing development.

Right now, more than 30% of downtown's land area is parking, and it maxes out at 56% occupancy.

Spokane!

Spokane Transit could do *a lot* with just a bit more local investment.

Sign the Petition STA Board - Give voters the opportunity to increase local support for public transit!

Do you want more frequent buses and later transit service? Sign our petition!

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When was the last time you saw an apartment with windows on three sides?

That’s what small buildings can get you (among lots of other benefits!)

We’re bringing them back—here is the first of hopefully many sixplexes we build in Spokane!

It’s the best kind of day — FRESH KERMIT DAY!

This is meant to help Elm St Greenway (the first leg of 27x27!) users cross Boone, where Elm does a little jog.

Spokane needs these!

The most effective reform we could make for mass transit in California is banning local elected officials from Metropolitan Planning Organization and regional transit agency governing boards. Have those be separate elected positions that riders could run for!

Row of strangely consistently white vehicles with their trunks open and people in costumes.

Witch handing out candy.

People standing in a parking lot.

A few years ago I learned America has a thing called Trunk or Treat where people dress up, drive to a parking lot, and pretend it's ok we don't have walkable communities anymore.

Person on a bike with two large bales tied to the back of the bike. Broadway in New York City. Photo by me.

A network of shared streets can enable the efficient movement of people and goods in a dense urban environment.

This may seem small, but this is really rad. You love to see the transit CEO actually using transit to get to work.

I love it!

Thanks for making this change!

A parking stall in the Spokane Transit Employee parking lot, with a sign indicated it is reserved for the winner of the employee recognition award.

The reserved CEO parking spot is no more. The stall is now reserved for the monthly employee recognition award winner, with an comparable alternative benefit for winners who don't drive.

Spokane has an incredibly generous and artistic activist community.

I'm so proud to be from Spokane.

Here are all the benches that Spokane Reimagined distributed during the Week Without Driving!

Find your nearest bench, have a seat, and take the bus on your next adventure!

STA board won't replace bus benches SPOKANE, Wash. - It's a showdown for the right to sit down. The Spokane Transit Authority board on Thursday rejected a $38,000 contract to replace some of the bus benches

The city had them removed because they violated local ordinance and STA chose not to replace the benches with ones without advertising.

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Thank you for the shout out, @strongtowns.org!

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Spokane Reimagined Community Benches – Felt The only cloud-native GIS platform.

Here's a map of all of our community benches. Click on a node to learn more about each bench, including the artist responsible!
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Broadway in New York City. Photo by me. There are lots of chairs laid out with people using them.

Cities everywhere need to do a better job providing places to sit.

Spokane nonprofit asks Transit Authority to improve city bus stops SPOKANE, Wash. — A local nonprofit that recently installed 29 benches at bus stops across Spokane says it wants to see more action from the Transit Authority on improving passenger

KXLY did a follow-up story on @spokanereimagined.org’s bus bench project and our ask of Spokane Transit Authority:

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