By Frank on February 13, 2010
This is a bit off-topic for this blog, but it’s infrastructure related, so why not? The Mayor’s office recently announced its intent to respond to a Request for Information (RFI) from Google to provide high-speed broadband to the city. This isn’t the first time a Seattle Mayor had a plan for city-wide broadband. In 2004, [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on February 8, 2010
It occurred to me that the electronic signs in Link’s windows telling you their destination are almost useless, since we currently only have one line. Also, the electronic signs announcing departing trains will be a bit sad, with only one destination announced per direction. I therefore suggest the following use, for one day humor value: 1. Change [...]
Posted in LINK
By Matt the Engineer on February 5, 2010
I love the stickers someone placed on Metro buses. Stabbing Prohibited and No Urinating. This should remove a few common bus faux pas.
Posted in Metro, policy
By Frank on February 5, 2010
Reading this reminds me of this. Ahh… memories.
Posted in Elections
By Frank on February 3, 2010
I’m a few days behind on this, but I wanted to comment on Mayor McGinn’s private robo-boll on west side light rail, as reported by The Stranger: This November, voters will decide a tax measure to fund light rail, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure. The measure authorizes up to two point one billion dollars in taxes [...]
Posted in light rail
By Frank on February 2, 2010
Decoding the pluses and minuses of the various SR-520 bridge replacement options is no easy task. Apparently several Seattle-based politicos have decided to oppose WSDOT’s preferred option, “A+” (option A is shown in the video above). If I understand the argument correctly, A+ would offer 4 general-purpose lanes, 2 in each direction, plus one HOV [...]
Posted in sr520
By Frank on February 1, 2010
Autopia discusses the role of airlines in high-speed rail: Airport congestion is a mounting problem exacerbated in part by all the short flights in and out of major airports. … These short hops should not exist. They’re short enough to take by train. It seems airlines keep the flights to attract more passengers by providing [...]
Posted in high speed rail, in other cities
By Frank on February 1, 2010
I’m excited to see Washington State receive $590 million in high-speed rail grants. It’s pretty remarkable that our state, with just 2% of the nation’s population, managed to snag 7% of the $8 billion in federal dollars. As much as I adore Sen. Patty Murray, I’m not sure we can give her office the lion’s [...]
Posted in high speed rail
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