We so desperately need rail transit here in Seattle
Yesterday and today were proof positive that we desperately need rail transit in Seattle. Last night, right at rush-hour we got dumped on out in Redmond — first some hail (to form a nice, slippery...
View ArticleST2 Draft Package
On the 11th, Sound Transit announced the details of the ST2 “draft package” to the world. This fills in some of the proposed details for the ST2 plan that have been – to this point – fairly fluid and...
View ArticleMontlake Transfers, the 48, and the 545
Bus Chick Carla (who, incidentally, evidently only lives a few blocks away from me and often rides the same series of buses) posted a blog post that is 1/2 of a post I’d been meaning to put up for some...
View Article520 Transit lanes NOT designed by anti-transit conspirators
Turns out I was wrong. I’d previously referred to the “right-hand-side-of-the-road” HOV lanes on SR-520 as having been designed by anti-transit conspirators. I found out yesterday from an email thread...
View Article“Seattle Traffic” lacks understanding
I can help to answer a question posted the other day to the Seattle Traffic blog. (and yes, I realize it’s rhetorical.) I believe that high tolls would have the dual effect of paying for construction...
View ArticleChasing after buses
I’ve posted before about roughly the same thing that Charles is referring to (ie – bus drivers who won’t let you on after they’ve inched out from the marked curb-stop and out to the red-light). Here...
View ArticleInvestment Guy on the Bus
A week or two ago I had an interesting experience on the 14 bus. I was riding home from something downtown (I forget what) at around 4 or 5pm. The bus was mostly full, and I found myself in one of the...
View ArticleOnly buses on 3rd Ave
Thank goodness, they’ve (finally) made it official that they’ll keep 3rd Ave bus-only — even after (some of) the buses go back into the transit tunnel in September:...
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Central-Link Light Rail Advances!
This one is, by now, a couple weeks old… but I’m still super-excited to link to this super-cool update/photo from Sound Transit. Here’s the photo and text, reproduced below: A Look Ahead This week...
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Partial Credit at the University of Washington
Yesterday, Gabriel and I took a few hours in the afternoon to go walk around the UW campus. Well, actually it was more like 2 hours and 45 mins of this was for the bus-ride up and back. Yes, that’s...
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