CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the Madison Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - RapidRide G Line project; authorizing the Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to acquire, accept, and record, on behalf of The City of Seattle, a signal pole and trolley wire easement from Seattle University, a Washington non-profit corporation, situated in a portion of Lots 1 through 6, Mile's Addition to the City of Seattle, together with a portion of vacated East Spring Street, vacated 11th Avenue, and vacated Madison Court, and an easement for public sidewalk from Casita Grande LLC, a Washington limited liability company, situated in a portion of Block 6, Addition to the City of Seattle, as laid off by D.T. Denny, Guardian of the Estate of J.H. Nagle (Commonly known as Nagle's Addition to the City of Seattle); designating the easements for transportation purposes, placing the easements under the jurisdiction of SDOT; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
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WHEREAS, the Madison Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - RapidRide G Line project (the "Project") is identified as a priority project in The City of Seattle's (the "City") 2012 Transit Master Plan and the Seattle Department of Transportation's 2015 Move Seattle 10-Year Strategic Vision for Transportation; and
WHEREAS, to that end, the Project is one of seven multimodal projects created and implemented in partnership between the City and King County Metro to re-channelize lanes, improve signal operations, and add transit stations to create a bus rapid transit service along the Madison Street corridor; and
WHEREAS, once the Project is completed, King County Metro will operate bus service along the Madison Street corridor from 1st Avenue in downtown Seattle's Central Business District to Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Madison Valley as the Madison BRT - RapidRide G Line route (the "G Line"); and
WHEREAS, the G Line will serve densely d...
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