When my friend and fellow transportation advocate Jason Rock pointed me to this recent OpEd in the Seattle newspaper bemoaning the pilot timed entry system that Mt. Rainier National Park rolled out this year to manage the parks ever-increasing car traffic, I had a few things to say. Jason, our friend and trailblazing nondriver advocate Anna Zivarts, and I drafted an Op Ed in response, and it just dropped in The Urbanist. Take a look. Be sure to check out the video excerpt from a PBS documentary that explains why the Puyallup Tribe is pushing for the renaming of the mountain.

The park service took public comment on the timed-entry pilot in the fall and I suspect a lot of the public asked for transit access to the park. So I’ll be keeping an eye out for any developments as a result of the public comment process and updating here. Stay tuned.

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