By Frank on December 22, 2011
The map above is striking. There’s clearly a core of Seattle — including Fremont, the University District, and Capitol Hill — that supported Prop 1, and for good reason. I wonder: what would a Transportation Benefit District look like for one or more of the neighborhoods above. Prop. 1 would have raised on the order [...]
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By Frank on November 21, 2011
Philly’s Best by &y The intersection at 23rd & Union has a storied past, but also a troubled one. In 2008, after Degene Barecha was killed while working at the Philly Cheese Steak restaurant on the corner, Robert Jamieson wrote a piece in the Seattle P-I recounting the corner’s history in which he referred to it [...]
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By Frank on November 16, 2011
Back in September I wrote about the demise of First Hill’s M Street Grocery, speculating that it had been done in (indirectly) by parking requirements. I can’t help but wonder if Belltown’s Local 360 Mercantile suffered the same fate. The Mercantile, attached to the restaurant by the same name, was a neat little shop and [...]
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By Frank on November 11, 2011
This is a great point from Ben: A more diffuse package raises negatives – which are much more powerful than positives. If a measure has roads and transit, people who hate roads will vote against it as well as people who hate transit. People who hate bike lanes [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on November 10, 2011
Seattle is covered in broken, dangerous sidewalks. I always assumed our sidewalks were terrible for the same reason that our roads are terrible – because WA is too anti-tax to fund anything properly. But today I found out that homeowners and businesses are actually required to maintain their own sidewalks. Not just rake and shovel [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on November 7, 2011
The Occupy Seattle protesters get it. I love that in yesterday’s Bank Transfer Day protests where they blocked traffic at a downtown intersection, they let buses pass through. Sure, almost everyone affected by the backup are in the 99%. But likely nobody in the 1% were on those buses. the police (who were cool as [...]
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By Frank on October 22, 2011
Seattle by Beaster725 This Thursday, JCFO is giving a design update on the Waterfront. With the Viaduct closing for a week, it seems like an appropriate time to think about a post-viaduct waterfront. DESIGN UPDATE AND IDEA SHARING October 27, 2011 5:00pm – 9:00pm Bell Harbor Conference Center, Pier 66 – Elliott Hall 2211 [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on October 8, 2011
There’s an idea going around (read the comments here) that a logical extension of Link in Seattle would be to just make a turn West at Brooklyn Station, and serve Wallingford, Phinney or Fremont, and Ballard. This is a great idea, and a way of serving some high-demand routes with our new rail infrastructure. However, [...]
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By Matt the Engineer on October 5, 2011
…and it’s far too late anyway. But what if instead of light rail over I-90, we just connected downtown Bellevue and downtown Seattle via gondola? The two are just 6 miles apart. Yes, that’s huge for gondola distances. And over some deep water. But I feel like crunching some numbers, so humor me. Speed We’d [...]
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By Frank on October 2, 2011
Boston_to_Chicago_5436 by sbamueller Eric McCaughrin from the East Bay Bicycle Coalition puts together a list of ways that antiquated Federal Railroad Administration rules stack the deck against passenger rail in the US. US trains need to be almost absurdly heavy to withstand potential freight crashes. This results in slower, more expensive, harder-to-maintain rolling stock. Trains [...]
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