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| Subject: Local Digest Officials sign smart-card pactWednesday, April 30, 2003 - Page updated at 01:49 p.m. | |
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Author: while Seattle monorail officials have expressed interest. Any agency in Washington, Idaho or Oregon can join later, and cards could be used to pay for highway tolls or parking fees, Sims said. |
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Date Posted: Thursday, May 01, 09:28:02am In reply to: Newspapers reporting result--March 7 2003 SMH 's message, "Noteholders have tickets to ride" on Thursday, March 06, 08:38:56am http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134686036_dige30m.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Local Digest Officials sign smart-card pact ----------------------------------------------------------- SEATTLE Transit officials from throughout the Puget Sound area signed an agreement yesterday to offer a regional "smart-card" payment system for transit riders in 2006. "Life needs simplicity like this," said Ron Sims, King County Executive and Sound Transit board chairman. ----------------------------------------------------------- Sound Transit, King County Metro, Community Transit of Snohomish County, Kitsap Transit, Pierce Transit, Everett Transit and Washington State Ferries signed the pact, while Seattle monorail officials have expressed interest. Any agency in Washington, Idaho or Oregon can join later, and cards could be used to pay for highway tolls or parking fees, Sims said. ----------------------------------------------------------- An estimated 80 percent of riders are expected to use the prepaid cards, which are flashed at an electronic reader as someone boards a bus or train. The deal includes a $31 million contract with Australia-based ERG for machines and software, plus $33 million for the first 10 years of operations. But transit agencies could reduce some existing operating costs. ----------------------------------------------------------- BPA, Seattle plan would add 600 acres to watershed ----------------------------------------------------------- SEATTLE A proposed settlement between the city of Seattle and the Bonneville Power Administration would add nearly 600 acres of land to the Cedar River watershed. ----------------------------------------------------------- In exchange, the city would allow BPA to build a 500-kilovolt power transmission line through the watershed, Mayor Greg Nickels said. ----------------------------------------------------------- The land will help improve water-quality protection, enhance security and benefit fish and wildlife habitat, Nickels said. ----------------------------------------------------------- The BPA has agreed to build the new transmission line next to an existing line, use construction practices that avoid or minimize environmental damage and has committed not to pursue any future right-of-way expansion in the watershed, Nickels said. ----------------------------------------------------------- The city would get all revenue from sale of removed trees, as well as $6 million over two years to fund water-quality and habitat improvements. ----------------------------------------------------------- The 90,546-acre Cedar River watershed provides almost 70 percent of the drinking water the city delivers to 1.3 million people in King County. ----------------------------------------------------------- If the Seattle City Council approves the proposed settlement, the BPA plans to begin construction of the transmission line in August, with operation expected to begin early next year. ----------------------------------------------------------- Man found dead appears to have fallen from cliff ----------------------------------------------------------- ALPENTAL The body of a 60-year-old Ellensburg man has been discovered near Snoqualmie Pass. ----------------------------------------------------------- A hiker near Guye Peak found the body around 2 p.m. Sunday and called authorities from a cellphone. ----------------------------------------------------------- "He had fallen what appears to be several hundred feet off a cliff," said King County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Kevin Fagerstrom. "No one was with him; no one witnessed the incident." ----------------------------------------------------------- Authorities do not think the death was a climbing accident because the victim was wearing street clothes. The man's car was in a nearby parking lot. ----------------------------------------------------------- His name has not been released. ----------------------------------------------------------- Transportation meeting tomorrow to look at what goes to voters ----------------------------------------------------------- SEATTLE Regional transportation officials have scheduled a summit with interest groups tomorrow that could help decide when a three-county transportation package goes to voters and what's included in it. ----------------------------------------------------------- The Regional Transportation Investment District's executive board has invited business, labor, environmental, transit and local-government leaders. ----------------------------------------------------------- "It'll give us the opportunity to hear from the real world about how to proceed, when to proceed and whether to proceed," said Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Julia Patterson. The district, which covers King, Snohomish and Pierce counties, has been crafting a package of regional transportation projects and taxes to submit to voters for more than a year. But key decisions were put off while the Legislature was in session it adjourned last weekend and the board has been stymied by disagreements over light rail. ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow's public meeting starts at 9 a.m. in the board room of the Puget Sound Regional Council, 1011 Western Ave., Suite 500, Seattle. ----------------------------------------------------------- Man accused in Oregon slaying charged with 2 holdups here ----------------------------------------------------------- SEATTLE A man who is accused of killing a taxicab driver in Portland was charged with two first-degree robberies in King County yesterday. ----------------------------------------------------------- Prosecutors say Stephen Warren Barr, 63, of Portland, held up two taverns in Seattle in February, after he allegedly killed the taxi driver Feb. 16 in Oregon and then fled north. ----------------------------------------------------------- Police and prosecutors said Barr robbed the TNT Tavern in West Seattle Feb. 18 and Viking Tavern in Ballard Feb. 19. At both establishments, prosecutors said, Barr left a beer glass with his fingerprints. He is being held in Portland where he faces the murder charge. ----------------------------------------------------------- Gas main ruptured in Interbay ----------------------------------------------------------- A backhoe at a construction site cut a two-inch gash in a gas main at Terminal 91 in Interbay around 12:30 today. The accident forced the evacuation of 20 workers at a food-bank warehouse run by Northwest Harvest there. Puget Sound Energy was called to shut off the gas. ----------------------------------------------------------- Times staff and news services ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2003 The Seattle Times Company ----------------------------------------------------------- [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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