By serial catowner on July 29, 2010
Opponents of the proposed deep-bore tunnel (DBT) on Seattle’s waterfront have based their arguments on a Big Lie- a lie that has been repeated so loudly and so long that it has achieved a counterfeit legitimacy among reporters (sic) too lazy to research the truth, and a local media hungry for headlines. The lie is [...]
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By serial catowner on July 16, 2010
Seattle has become the Lindsay Lohan of cities, imagining herself as a Paris or Barcelona if only she drinks longer and harder. In her mind, it’s all about Seattle. And the latest is, that having primped on imaginings that a two-mile tunnel would rival the Big Dig in expense, Seattle is now able to think [...]
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By serial catowner on July 10, 2010
Reading between the somewhat frantic lines, I’m sensing a certain last-ditchedness about the recent efforts of tunnel opponents to halt the project. This has apparently played so well in Seattle that some are even willing to consider rebuilding an elevated Alaskan Way along the waterfront instead of a tunnel. All of this, they say, is [...]
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By serial catowner on July 4, 2010
Napolean is reputed to have told his marshals “You may ask of me anything, gentlemen- but time“. Reading G. Freeman Allen’s Railways- Past, Present, and Future, published in 1984, I was much struck by his descriptions of how Europe rebuilt their rail systems after WW II, and then undertook projects lasting decades and costing billions [...]
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By serial catowner on June 24, 2010
Putting a public face on their considerations of what to do with the electric trolley buses, Metro has set up a web page. Here they highlight the differences between a 20-year old electric trolley bus and a new diesel hybrid. They say the electric bus can only use regenerative braking when another bus on the [...]
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By serial catowner on June 17, 2010
You might hope that the recent catastrophic collapse of the London Tube PPP might put a damper on those proposals- but you know it won’t. So, here’s the story of Auckland NZ, as found by Planetizen in the pages of The Toronto Globe and Mail. Note especially that, although a number of the companies are [...]
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By serial catowner on June 14, 2010
That is, one week from Tuesday. Sanjay Das informs me in an e-mail that he is “also working on a campaign to save Seattle’s trolley buses. There is an open house for this at Plymouth Congressional Church, 1217 6th Ave, from 5-7 PM on Tuesday the 22nd.” And really, can you imagine meeting a nicer [...]
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By serial catowner on June 7, 2010
When the ‘powers that be’ report that there are no plans to bring back the Waterfront Streetcar. and that the waterfront will be ‘open space’, does this mean we’ll be faced with too much lawn to really enjoy? Well, not exactly… For starters, that ‘open space’ will have four lanes of road running through it. [...]
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By serial catowner on June 3, 2010
In a comment at Save the Waterfront Streetcar, SR Das reports ” I’ve told BOTH the Waterfront- and Seattle Streetcar-related parties about the revival of the WFSC, btu they all had the same answer– ‘There are no plans to revive the WFSC, 1st Ave has been identified as a possible streetcar route, and teh waterfront [...]
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By serial catowner on May 31, 2010
Build your own! Perhaps as impressive as the moving of dirt are the number of governments this guy has outlived- each of which would have been compelled to cancel his permits and make him start over, if he’d been working in Seattle.
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