Orphan Road

Richard Morrill's piece in Crosscut is pretty good, and he's on the right track. But I think he fails -- as many other anti-transit folks do -- to address the need for rapid transit within the city of Seattle.

But while Morrill and others argue that not everyone wants to live in dense urban centers, the fact is that the residential population of the urban core is skyrocketing. We're building thousands of new apartments and condos between Lake Union and SODO, and the existing street grid and bus networks simply won't be able to move these people around.

This comes via Mike at CIS, and I basically agree with his analysis.