West Seattle

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No AI in the classroom, but what about AI in the bathroom? First, though, we want to wish a happy belated birthday to Diana Davis in West Seattle, who loves choir, piano, and dance, and who turned nine during an epic summer vacation to Iceland.

Diana, your family loves how curious, witty, gregarious, and kind you are, and hopes you enjoy your last single-digit year.

Now, today's Kid News quiz.

Noelle Gasca has more.

As the doors to the brand new Alki Elementary School in West Seattle swung open to welcome kids Wednesday morning, families and teachers cheered.

Connor Milner-Burke started the fourth grade today and says he's fine with the school year beginning on schedule.

I was hoping I could go to school today so I don't have to make that up like at the end of the school year.

Next time on Seattle Now, fare gates are coming to light rail stations.

That's because Sound Transit needs every penny it can get to expand to West Seattle and Ballard.

This is about long-term money-making.

So after they even those costs, they expect to bring in about $30 million a year with these fair gains.

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in a neighborhood called West Seattle.

So it's kind of like a suburb that's still in the city.

We're about 15 minutes from downtown Seattle.

-around Jo- Joy Thomas Park Station, where there have been, uh, serious injuries and fatalities, and advocates have been pushing for, for quicker action.

Uh, there's also a whole slate of accelerated new projects that are a little bit smaller scale, uh, including a new protected bike lane down by the West Seattle Ferry terminal, uh, where a cyclist was killed in June.

Yeah.

And along 12th Avenue South, uh, where another cyclist was killed, um, over in Central District.

And so those are gonna move up the pipeline and get im- implemented a lot quicker.

The, um, the West Seattle bike lane is, is being fast-tracked, uh, to an, on an extreme degree that I haven't seen in a while.

Uh, the city, city's already gone out there and removed all the parking so that it's a little bit safer, but the bike lane's gonna come in quickly thereafter.

Um, and then there's so many other things I could go on about this exec- executive order.

Charlotte, you had a sleepover recently.

I remember you went over to West Seattle or something for a sleepover.

Am I remembering that right?

You are remembering that right.