Learn about downtown Tacoma museums and exercise with friends on Downtown on the Go’s July 6 Museum Walk. Start at 5:15 p.m. at the Children’s Museum, walk along Pacific Avenue and end with an after party at the Foss Waterway Seaport! Free event!
To learn more about the Walk Tacoma series and upcoming events, visit their webpage.
To prepare for a devastating earthquake, many organizations throughout the Northwest will practice responding to a 9.0 magnitude quake during a readiness drill this week. The drill will start on Tuesday, June 7 with this scenario: a massive earthquake strikes near Eugene, OR, damaging areas throughout the Northwest and triggering a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean.
Known as Cascadia Rising, this emergency preparedness drill is the largest in the Northwest and will include about 20,000 people from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. The exercise assumes a worst-case scenario in which bridges and roads are closed, power is out and water covers lowland areas. Local, state and federal agencies will practice moving food and water, conducting search and rescue operations, communicating on ham radios and more during this four-day megaquake and tsunami drill.
#CascadiaEQ Tweetchat
Scientists, emergency personnel and others are sharing information about earthquakes, communications and what to do after a quake on Twitter today. Follow #cascadiaeq to ask questions, share information about previous quakes and learn more. Here’s an example:
Be prepared
The Cascadia Rising event is a good reminder for people to have emergency kits with food and water at home, work and in the car. Here’s how to build a kit for at least 7 days to make it through the “big one.”
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In response to public comments about building transit faster, Sound Transit today proposed to build the ST3 projects sooner — between 2-5 years faster, depending on the project. ST3 is the proposed 25-year regional transit plan that would increase light rail, commuter rail and bus service in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties.
The Sound Transit Board will vote on the transit projects and timelines on June 2 and plans to adopt the plan at its June 23 meeting in order to place ST3 on the November ballot. Here is a list of the proposed ST3 projects and new timelines.
Sound Transit received over 34,000 survey responses on ST3.
Here is a presentation summarizing the public comments received on the draft ST3 plan.
Located in the heart of the neighborhood, the Capitol Hill light rail station offers good connections to other travel options.
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National Small Business Week is May 1 – 7, and many organizations offer free trainings to help small businesses. Some free events include:
Best wishes for your continued success!
Riding light rail to the new UW Station
To expand the regional transit system, Sound Transit proposes to build over 20 light rail, commuter rail and bus projects during the next 25 years. Outlined in a draft plan called ST3, the transit projects would serve Snohomish, King and Pierce counties. ST3 would cost approximately $50 billion and be funded with new and existing transit taxes. See Sound Transit’s March 25, 2016 press release on the ST3 annoucement.
The public is invited to review and comment on the draft ST 3 plan now until April 29. Here’s how you can get involved:
Based on community input, Sound Transit will finalize the ST3 plan and place a transit tax on the November 2016 ballot. If passed, the average household would pay approximately $200 more per year in taxes to pay for the transit improvements.
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