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I ran across the Austin Contrarian’s “Three strategies for driving families with children out of Austin’s urban core” when searching around for ways to use the Census 2010 Summary File 1 (SF1) for Washington, released this past week, which includes more detailed demographics down to the Census Block level. The regulations are of course different [...]

For retailers, the holiday season accounts for a huge percentage of annual sales, and I recently heard that Amazon.com designed its EC2 cloud computing service to meet the holiday spike in online retailing as well. The effects of this spike spill over into other sectors of the economy, such as shipping. Unfortunately, transit service seems [...]

ORCA autoload began failing for us after moving in late 2009. Paper forms submitted to Metro didn’t solve the problem, and I found that I could use orcacard.com to manually add money via the same credit card that we used for autoload. Our billing information showed up correctly on the website, but autoload kept failing [...]

Update: The P-I coverage “Don’t take our electric trolley buses” has additional details, and the Clerk’s Office has the meeting minutes including presentations. The Seattle City Council’s Transportation Committee held a Special Meeting on the Electronic Trolley System today (video available at link) attended by Council members Rasmussen, Conlin, Licata, Godden, O’Brien, and Bagshaw as [...]

Full disclosure: I have no idea how a Local Improvement District (LID) really works, but it occurred to me the other day that perhaps Urban Village neighborhood councils could lobby for one to implement aspects of “Walk, Bike, Ride” in their area. For example, Eastlake is in pretty good shape and not on the funding [...]