By Matt the Engineer on February 28, 2010
I’m taking my son and niece on the light rail to find parks today, and found this resource. It has walking maps of all of the Rainier Valley light rail stations. It looks like it’s been around a while and people around here may already know about it, but I hadn’t so I thought I’d [...]
Posted in link light rail, walking
By Matt the Engineer on February 26, 2010
The Seattle Times has been running a full court press to build 520 in any way the state (and Microsoft) wants. It’s always felt to me that money drives news in our local papers (now paper), but with Microsoft paying $40,000 for a full page ad supporting the bridge it’s not even being done under [...]
Posted in bridge, subsidies
By serial catowner on February 25, 2010
In a sense it’s a darned shame the transit to the eastside is moving so fast. In a short time (as these things go) public opinion would support twice as much transit for the same money. This seeming miracle, of course, would be accomplished by using the land and right-of-way the public already owns. There’s [...]
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By serial catowner on February 24, 2010
In a general sort of way I learn that Portland is planning to spend $613 million on bicycling over the next 20 years. Details are few, the picture uninspiring. Hopefully, some bike paths will be built, and doing some painting of lanes is probably a good idea. But my idea of making bicycle commuting more [...]
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By Frank on February 22, 2010
Central District News reports that a study is underway to reduce 23rd Ave from 4 lanes to 2 and allow parking at certain times of day. I don’t much care for this idea. I find the design pattern of “sometimes this is a travel lane, sometimes it’s a parking spot” to be maddening as a [...]
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By Frank on February 22, 2010
Nice new feature from WSDOT. A live interactive map of the ferries. It’s not quite clear from the map, but it looks as if a red dot means the ferry is docked and a green icon means it’s in motion. (via)
Posted in ferries, Washington State Ferries, WSDOT
By Frank on February 22, 2010
One neighborhood in the Puget Sound is eager to get light rail. Another neighborhood is trying to find ways to keep it out. Guess which neighborhood is actually getting light rail? (via)
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By serial catowner on February 19, 2010
…or, the years the locusts ate. The outline of the future is now reasonably clear- in order to keep a liveable climate, humanity will live in buildings on transit lines, and this society has to be built in the next 20 years. You can stop thinking about the next car you’re going to buy. Some [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on February 18, 2010
We all know WSDOT loves cars, but this is just sad. Go to the WSDOT home page to see their list of priorities, click on “Climate Change.” Look for their “Climate Change Tools,” click on “Moving Washington.” Notice first that this page is aimed at reducing congestion. Then notice that their first strategy is to [...]
Posted in WSDOT
By Matt the Engineer on February 17, 2010
KUOW* recently played one of Alex Steffen’s Town Hall talks from a few months ago, and I highly recommend listening to them. He claims that Seattle has a world reputation as a green city, which is based purely on our clean hydroelectric energy source, not the way we run our city or region. But we [...]
Posted in climate change
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