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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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Maybe more parking garages will increase ridership 🥴
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.
No mention of this, pretty much a puff piece.
Don’t you mean inauspicious
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
I wonder why transit casuals keep getting Sounder and Link mixed up 🤔
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.
Funny how I don’t hear the auto industry supporting the gas tax?
I guess Cuomo is your guy?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new low, and that is saying something.
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.
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.🤣
Yeah, crying for a baseball game as a grown man is a red flag 🚩