Division Street Transit Oriented Development

For pity sake, still no compass rose?

Also, please ensure that wherever the push-button light-enabled crosswalks are placed, that the signaling systems make sense to all parties involved. As of now, the light signaling across Division, for example, blinks red, goes solid red, and then blinks red once more. As a driver I feel as though it should go...start by blinking yellow (requesting for the caution of on-coming traffic), go solid red (while the pedestrian is crossing), and then switch back to blinking yellow (to ensure that drivers are maintaining a cautious-yielding state to ensure the pedestrian has cleared the roadway).

ALL of the nodes are going to need to be given top-tier priority for litter and trash clean up each day/week/month. A DSP-like squadron is going to need to be employed to ensure that ALL areas are kept tidy at all times. This going to need to be a combined effort with the City, County, Waste Management, etc. Without maintaining these areas, there will be dramatic bond/tax increase resentment from the citizens of these areas.

If we're starting from scratch and building new infrastructure, we should be building a bike network in this area as well, restricting cars to the perimeter and division, similar to suburban planning in Houten, Netherlands.

Just because you are putting a bus line all the way to Northgate, doesn't mean there are developers around who will be interested in building all this housing, and once again most likely all will be using cars, especially since this is so close to the freeway interchanges...

Frequent, reliable transit service requires critical mass. Industry standards indicate that bus service requires a minimum of 5,000-7,000 residents within a half-mile (walking distance) of stations to support 15-minute or better frequency
without committed transit service operating at the time development begins, the density assumption is speculative and unachievable.
The risk is actual "induced sprawl": Higher zoning allows development before transit is funded, but individual projects proceed as car-dependent subdivisions because transit service never materializes. Residents must then rely on private vehicles, defeating the GMA goals of concentrating growth near transit and reducing transportation impacts.

The proposed Northgate node expands growth far north along the Newport Highway corridor, distant from existing urban services and employment centers. Under the Growth Management Act, the county must demonstrate that adequate public facilities—including sewer, water, transportation, and transit systems—can serve planned densities within the planning period.

This looks like a great project, however, my opinion is that it needs to happen AFTER the North/South Freeway is open. Taking away lanes on a busy street is not a good idea and leads to other traffic jams. Please wait so that there is a good alternative route. Thank you!