Posted Thu, Jul 1, 11:48 p.m.

I've had an idea recently in regards to park space in the area. I think if the city closed down 7th Ave in the Denny Triangle between Westlake and Denny and purchased the blocks on either side (almost all of it Clise property) we could build a truly amazing park. ...

Posted Fri, Feb 5, 9:46 a.m.

What I don't think people living on the east side realize is that Seattle's capacity for accommodating the automobile is 100% MAXED OUT. I-5 is a parking lot Our street grid is over capacity. Our neighborhoods were never planned to accommodate for the massive amount of traffic we have and ...

Posted Thu, Sep 10, 9:11 a.m.

I disagree with this line of thinking completely. That area is a wasteland and needs to be completely rebuilt. The piecemeal approach to moving traffic through it is what made it the abomination it is today. It is crowded BECAUSE it is complicated. This project is transformative. The area east ...

Posted Tue, Jul 28, 8:30 a.m.

What a beautiful vision! It could be a neat bike corridor possibly even grabbing commuters from as far as Tukwila.

Posted Thu, Apr 30, 1:18 p.m.

I love the idea of fur, alder and cedar on a prominent downtown waterfront. How often does one get to experience that? Perfect Seattle mix of big city excitement (historic piers, aquarium, sculpture park, awesome skyline) with northwest beauty and recreation (pine trees, water features, mountain views) Our waterfront could ...

Posted Thu, Mar 12, 6:49 p.m.

Income taxes have proven to work just fine in other states. For being a blue state, it seems utterly ridiculous to me that we have THE most regressive tax structure in the country (www.itepnet.org/wp2000/text.pdf). We ask the poor to pay 5 and 1/2 times more tax per income as compared ...

Posted Thu, Mar 5, 3:39 p.m.

I think this blame-everything-on-Nickels sentiment has gone too far. We let the Wawona rot for 30 years, what do you expect? He had the guts to point out what it had become: a giant pile of rotting lumber. What do you expect? A property tax increase to rebuild the thing? ...

Posted Tue, Mar 3, 9:10 a.m.

Bill, Thanks for taking the time to post! In addition to the priorities you mentioned, it seems important to think about conceptually integrating the two technologies. For example, seeing all the routes on the same map, with similar colors on the vehicles will help to greatly reduce confusion and therefore ...

Posted Mon, Mar 2, 3:13 p.m.

Great vision! Yes, if we can narrow the gap between the experience of riding the trolley bus and the streetcar, I'm all for saving money. It needs to be frequent, comfortable, simple, logical, well marked, and easily accessible. If it could also have signal priority and dedicated lanes... well then ...

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 2:16 p.m.

Amysee, You hit the nail on the head. I don't know what John Fox was smoking when he said that. I definitely don't agree with some density zealots who say there should be mandated limits on the number of parking spaces, but eliminating minimum parking requirements and letting the market ...

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 1:44 p.m.

I think you have it backwards, Lincoln. Higher density development would occur naturally around these stations, but only if we ALLOWED it to. This bill FORCES nobody to do anything. Right now the land is FORCED to stay low density, keeping land values artificially low. Thus FORCING development into our ...

Posted Sat, Feb 7, 12:48 p.m.

Woah there hummingbird! I didn't say a thing about Renton. You did. Bickering about whose kingdom is greater is pointless. I never claimed 'aesthetic superiority' for Seattle. It works for me, but Renton sounds like a wonderfully diverse and non-pretentious place from the way you describe it! Now can we ...

Posted Fri, Feb 6, 12:21 p.m.

As an urbanite, I am fine with the suburbs. However, I am not fine with: pollution, auto dependency, eco-system destruction, global warming, disproportionate infrastructure subsidy, blight, and a total disregard for homelessness, mental health and other social needs that are all shipped off to the city centers. (Or in our ...

Posted Wed, Jan 21, 11:15 a.m.

Ah! Some clarity on the subject. Thanks for taking the time to thoroughly respond.

Posted Mon, Jan 12, 2 p.m.

Show me the multi part of the multi-modal transit and I'll show you some foot ferries. We need rapid connections once those foot ferries dock.

Posted Mon, Jan 12, 1:55 p.m.

Now that Alaska Way will be buried underground creating yet another tunnel in that area, one has to wonder if the extension of the monorail isn't an inevitability. Ballard and West Seattle will continue to grow and densify and some form of rapid mass transit will be necessary. If not ...

Posted Wed, Dec 10, 10:12 a.m.

As a pro-density, pro-development Democrat, Tim Burgess is about the only guy I would consider voting for besides re-electing Nickels. He's been a real gem so far.

Posted Mon, Sep 29, 11:37 p.m.

RE: There is a Finite Amount of Tax the Public Can Bear: Cars and your respitory health Cars and obesity I mean really, why on earth would we want to put ourselves in such a precarious position where we are so dependent on one dangerous product? An average of 114 ...

Posted Mon, Sep 29, 11:36 p.m.

RE: There is a Finite Amount of Tax the Public Can Bear: Why would we even talk about the costs of light rail unsubsidized? Even though I primarily ride my bike, use mass transit and walk, there are still plenty of sources through which I help shoulder the burden of ...

Posted Wed, Aug 13, 1:19 p.m.

RE: Yes on I-985; No on everything else!!: Excess demand to roadways during peak hours is the real problem, to which congestion is the most feasible solution. The more we make it difficult for ourselves to use alternative forms of transit, the more we shoot ourselves in the foot. HOV ...

Posted Tue, Jul 22, 11:48 a.m.

RE: Wrong from the second sentence: Working within the constraints of their budget, no, the main light rail line was not able to make it to Tacoma in this plan. However, there is money for more express bus service, more Sounder trips (including longer trains and platforms), and contrary to ...

Posted Mon, Jul 21, 6:40 p.m.

This is not productive.: I see nothing but more process and red tape in your suggestions. Look how much more "accountable" our directly elected Port of Seattle is. Yes, they botched their grand entrance. You should get over it. There is new blood and Sound Transit is a completely different, ...