By serial catowner on May 31, 2010
I’m no big expert on these things, but from what I can see the Congress is working on a ‘climate bill’ that is intended, on the face of it, to limit carbon emissions. Cutting through absolute tons of verbiage, it seems the basic strategy is to tax carbon emissions, and rebate the tax to citizens, [...]
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By serial catowner on May 25, 2010
In a post today about the SR 99 tunnel on the waterfront, the Slog says “If the deep-bore tunnel also were to run 30 percent over budget—the tunnel itself is $1.8 billion, other costs are for associated expenses—that could create an unresolved expense of $600 million that the state would refuse to pay for.” That’s [...]
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By serial catowner on May 25, 2010
A recent post on a Seattle P-I blog, about a $40 million bus stop, shows sharply that the future is being built now. As Senator Dirksen might have said, “$40 million here, $40 million there, and before you know it…” $40 million is almost enough to build a mile of light rail, at an averaged [...]
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By serial catowner on May 17, 2010
When I worked as a letter-carrier in Bellevue in 1968, the older carriers at the post office all thought our jobs would be abolished soon- possibly even before they retired. They thought the Post Office couldn’t be crazy enough to keep taking mail to mailboxes miles from town, when the mail could simply be put [...]
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By serial catowner on May 13, 2010
I had to laugh as I read Martin Duke’s anti-open space screed last weekend, because it was so easy to see the men who tried to wreck Seattle in the 60s using exactly those words- “Enough open space already! Enough of this hippy BS!” No, we didn’t need no open-meetings law then, because they would [...]
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By serial catowner on May 7, 2010
As the Slog noted back in March, we’re rapidly nearing the decision point to keep or lose the electric trolleybuses in Seattle. If you think losing the electric trolleys is just too absurd to imagine, you’ve clearly forgotten how the Waterfront Streetcar was lost. Councilman Tom Rasmussen, chair of the council’s transportation committee, has been [...]
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By serial catowner on April 30, 2010
Transit fans at SeattleTransitBlog have noted that “our coolness on light rail over the new span is not the straw man that “it isn’t in the plans” but rather that there is no concrete destination in the Eastside suburbia to run another light rail line toward”. That’s right- they can look at a map of [...]
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By serial catowner on April 26, 2010
The past year in Seattle rail transit has been dizzying, and it appears, in retrospection, that transit fans may have wrong-footed themselves with respect to getting rail transit in Seattle in the near-term future. Let’s review… At the beginning of last year, we had Greg Nickels working on the Central Line Streetcar project, and Mike [...]
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By serial catowner on April 22, 2010
The recent discussions of the 520 bridge have certainly been interesting, to say the least, in revealing transit advocates in Seattle who approve of doubling the size of the existing bridge, to allow more traffic to move more quickly (and make transit look worse) and are opposed to providing for the future construction of rail [...]
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By serial catowner on April 19, 2010
In the recent debate over rail on the 520 bridge, we’ve heard plenty about how that is not in the plan. According to these commentators, because it’s not in the plan, it shouldn’t be built, or even, to any serious extent, considered. I got to thinking about how recent rail transit developments in Seattle measure [...]
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