By Frank on March 31, 2010
Yonah Freemark wonders if affordable electric cars like the Nissan Leaf will decrease the American public’s well-known appetite for more public transit. Freemark argues that even electric cars have environmental problems: electricity comes from dirty sources, electric cars have short lifespans, and they still encourage sprawl. I think this is right, as far as it [...]
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By Frank on March 30, 2010
Public Transit spending is more popular than health care reform: More than four-in-five voters (82 percent) say that “the United States would benefit from an expanded and improved transportation system,” including modes of transportation like rail and buses. An overwhelming majority of voters agree with this statement — no matter where they live. Even in [...]
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By Frank on March 29, 2010
This is a few days late, but since I gave Bellevue’s City Council a hard time over the idea of the B7 alignment, I should note that they’ve decided to support C9T, a tunnel through downtown. If the city wants to find the money for the more expensive tunnel, I’m sure they’ll find the money. [...]
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By joshuadf on March 28, 2010
Segale’s plans to pave more farmland in the Green River Valley
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By serial catowner on March 27, 2010
A recent post at STB generated a comment thread pretty much focused on building a better-than-160mph HSR line from Vancouver to Portland as soon as possible. Unfortunately, two questions went largely unasked and, thus, unanswered. Question number 1- If we’re going to build a fast train pretty soon, why build a slow train now? If [...]
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By serial catowner on March 25, 2010
Dominic Holden, in a post at the Slog, gives us the heads-up that the electric trolley bus system will be discontinued in the next year if regular people don’t do something about it. Make no mistake- the table is slanted at every level. The suburbs instinctively dislike the ETBs as being ‘different’. The transit bureaucracy [...]
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By Frank on March 24, 2010
Some of you visiting the site from some browsers may have recently seen malware warnings when you tried to read the blog. I believe I’ve gotten rid of the offending stuff, and I’ll be taking steps down the road to make sure it doesn’t happen again. In the meantime, sorry for the inconvenience.
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By Frank on March 24, 2010
Unapologetic urbanist Dan Bertolet argues for putting streets in Seattle Center. Taking out the stadium, as proposed in the Master Plan, is an excellent bold move to start with. But how about something even more radical and counterintuitive: What if we brought the street grid back in? Not everywhere, but in several strategic locations. And [...]
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By serial catowner on March 23, 2010
In a recent post at the Seattle P-I, we learn this about the McGinn plan to let the people of Seattle vote on a light rail line in 2010 or 2011- “He hasn’t gotten to the point of studying how that might happen, and whether it would go to a vote, or what the funding [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on March 17, 2010
In our attempt at making cities more friendly for bicycling, we often talk of bike paths as being the gold standard. But cars never settled for paths – riddled with stop lights, crosswalks, and pedestrians – for their ideal commute. I think it’s time to consider a bicycle freeway downtown. My idea of a bicycle freeway [...]
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