Green Sports and Transportation: The Elephant in the Room

Wharton Penn : "The biggest carbon impact of sports events typically comes from fans getting to and from the game, a factor that teams and leagues can only influence, not control. The Portland Trail Blazers estimate that energy used by the arena is responsible for 24% of its carbon footprint, while 73% is related to transportation: Attendee commuting totals 58%, employee commuting is 11% and business travel accounts for 4%."

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Expanded public transportation would be good for the city

Wyoming Daily Newspaper: "I understand that financing a bus line has the potential to be very costly initially and that the public might be reluctant to put money in a project like this. Long-term, though, a public transportation system has the potential of saving the people of Riverton money on gasoline, less congested streets and parking, and less associated repair on streets. It could create jobs, and it could make Riverton more enticing for newcomers and visitors alike."

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People rally against drastic bus cuts in Seattle

West Seattle Herald: "Recently announced serious cuts to King County Metro Bus service should a funding solution not be found motivated the group to action. The cuts would amount to 17% resulting in the loss of several important bus routes serving West Seattle.
Cuts will affect eight out of every 10 riders, with more than 70 routes eliminated completely. These transit reductions will place an estimated additional 10,000 cars on our overtaxed West Seattle roadways."

Move King County Now -- rally to stop bus cuts

Move King County Now: "Fitzgibbon, McDermott, & Rasmussen join with the West Seattle Transportation Coalition and other West Seattle leaders to rally in support of saving Metro from 17% bus cuts."

Bus money taken for corporate welfare

Legislators Jump to Deliver Tax Breaks for Boeing; Tough Luck for Transit | Transit Riders Union: "Rodney Tom and his cohorts are only too happy to hop over to Olympia for a special session to give Boeing, a Fortune 500 Company, “one of the biggest tax-break bills in Washington-state history” (according to the Washington State Wire)–tax money that Metro sorely needs. But to save bus service and retain a decent transportation system for King County that allows riders to get to work, school, and everywhere else they need to go—for this Rodney Tom tell us “Tough.”"

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Lawmakers at hearing told to pass transportation plan

The Seattle Times: "A spectrum of transit riders, construction workers, business owners, pedestrians, bicyclists, freight carriers and government officials on Monday night urged state lawmakers to pass a multibillion-dollar transportation package.

The hearing, at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Seattle, drew 450 people, including yellow-shirted transit activists and orange-shirted construction laborers."

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Cache Valley Utah Free Transit system gets new center after growing by 600,000 riders

The Herald Journal: : Beutler said increased growth in annual ridership and the ability to expand bus service in the future required CVTD to remodel the Transit Center.

"It allows us to expand the system as the system grows," Beutler said.

He noted that since the original Transit Center was constructed in 2001, CVTD bus service has experienced growth from 1.5 million passenger trips to more than 2.1 million trips anually.