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Jaw County

@jawcounty.bsky.social

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Eyes on South King County. Luddite, Dialectical Materialism, Darosh Darash דָּרוֹשׁ דָּרַשׁ Urbanism, buses, trains Seattle/King County/Cascadia/Salish/Tucson/Sonoran Desert

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Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe more parking garages will increase ridership 🥴

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 4d

Jackson St is an SDOT policy failure. Cement trucks use it to Rat Run to Hwy 99. Such a missed opportunity for a mode filter.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 6d

No mention of this, pretty much a puff piece.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t you mean inauspicious

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

It’s still all very Rube Goldberg the simple and best solution is to just eliminate all the ramps to Rainier. Although I concede I’m tilting at windmills.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

It’s also conspicuous which makes people think housing is being built when in reality it’s literally a facade to stop people from seeing all the land wasted on single family housing.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

I agree, the self-righteousness of people advocating for bus fares is laughable and small minded. There is a reason the auto industry doesn’t advocate for gas taxes. Fares are a barrier to using transit, the more users the more advocates for government to invest in transit.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

What about the wait time for small businesses to actually get paid from credit/debit cards. Plus the flat fees can really drive up the cost for small transactions. I pay cash when possible at small businesses I welcome them avoiding paying sales taxes.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

Once had a driver get bent out of shape about someone pulling the cord for the last stop which is a transit center. Driver made an announcement to complain, dropped us off in front of puddle and drove off quickly. It was actually kind of comical 😂

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 8d

Allowing an elderly person to take a bus instead of walking a mile is still a public good even if it doesn’t remove a car trip. Not every transit policy has to be about getting affluent people from not driving.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 9d

I do see a decent amount of people ignore the sign and just walk across the tracks from the Sounder platform to get to King St.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 9d

I guess I’ll give some credit to SDOT for this spot improvement but it’s still laughable there is no bike lane to Sounder entrance and yeah Jackson is calling out to be mode filter.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder why transit casuals keep getting Sounder and Link mixed up 🤔

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 9d

I think the bigger issue is that Jackson and 4th Ave and 2nd Ave Extensions are car sewers. Although it would be nice to be able to exit off Sounder onto King St.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 10d

Funny how I don’t hear the auto industry supporting the gas tax?

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 10d

I guess Cuomo is your guy?

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 10d

Infrastructure was meh, most of the money went to highway construction and it didn’t favor blue states in fact a majority went to red states. Biden wasn’t vindictive and naively tried to be bipartisan. He was feckless should have been trying to send check$ which Covid proved is possible.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 10d

Close every government office in West Virginia, make it his mission to destroy the economy of that state which is extremely dependent on government handouts.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 10d

True but that is also a testament to Biden being feckless and letting a hillbilly and Karen from his own party bog down his entire domestic agenda.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 11d

Not making the increased child tax credit was another massive L for Biden. No one in the working class felt more economically secure in 2024 than in 2020.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 11d

Um no, he completely dismantled the Covid safety net instead of making it permanent. Most of the infrastructure money went to massive highway boondoggles in red states.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 11d

A new low, and that is saying something.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 12d

A subway is more than just grade separated. These trains are low floor so capacity is severely degraded and rolling stock is more expensive. Grade separated light rail really is a fools errand. High cost low capacity not to mention it won’t be automated something skytrain figured out 40 years ago.

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 14d

Nah, crying for a sport is infantile. I cried many times as a child for sports but a part of growing up is keeping things in perspective. That video was cringe. Plus it was a single run (they didn’t even win at the time) in game two of a division series.🤣

Jaw County @jawcounty.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, crying for a baseball game as a grown man is a red flag 🚩