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Summer is just around the corner! We cannot wait to spend more time outside utilizing all of the great transportation resources our city has. We wanted to spend this time outlining some of the wonderful transit opportunities that are available in King County this summer.   But first! Our last ORCA LIFT enrollment event of … Continued

It is the U District’s favorite time of the year! Street Fair!! This year we shared a booth with U District Partnership, the organization responsible for planning the whole event. We even got to showcase our exciting new Wayfinding cart at the event. This year the U District Street Fair celebrated 50 years, which is … Continued

At U District Let’s Go, one of our top priorities is continuing community engagement and outreach work in the U District. The best part about community engagement for our program is that we get to work with our community partners in lots of different ways. One way we have been reaching out to more folks … Continued

U District Let’s Go is stepping up our Social Media game! On March 14th, we attended Transportation Choices Coalition’s Transit Talk titled 10 Years of Link Light Rail. 10 Years of Connecting Community and live tweeted the event! It was a great way to connect the transportation work we do in the U District to … Continued

It is a new year, and U District Let’s Go is still going! With the support of our new Outreach Manager, Laura Lee Sturm, we are able to maintain critical core programming from 2018. Laura Lee is a first year Masters of Social Work Student from the University of Washington in the Community-Centered Integrative Practice. … Continued

U District, Let’s Go is a year long pilot program that kicked off earlier this year and is set to end in December. Thanks to the continued partnerships with Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), the U District Partnership (UDP), and a new partnership with the University of Washington School of Social Work, we are excited … Continued

U District, Let’s Go is holding its last ORCA LIFT enrollment event of the year. The program is also loading funds onto ORCA LIFT card holder’s cards. This time of year can be difficult for some people, we’re hoping that this helps have a difference.  Holiday LIFT will be held on December 11, 2018 at … Continued

Small businesses (with fewer than 100 employees) can try ORCA for Business programs at a lower cost now through June 2019.  For businesses who choose to subsidize their employees’ transit passes though ORCA Business Passport or Business Choice for the first time, WSDOT will provide a 50% rebate on the employers’ contribution amount up to … Continued

This December, the U District, Let’s Go year-long pilot is coming to an end, however a new era is about to begin. Thanks to continued partnership with Seattle Department of Transportation, the U District Partnership and the University of Washington School of Social Work. We’re still finalizing the details and will let you know more … Continued

Last week, on October 4, U District, Let’s Go held it’s second Transit Talk, a neighborhood focused conversation that brought the U District, Roosevelt, and Northgate neighborhoods together into one room for an info share and resource exchange. Northlink Light rail stations will arrive in 2021, which means these neighborhoods will be better connected to … Continued