Posted Mon, Apr 4, 3:44 p.m.

As for MacDonald's typical grousing about "empty seats on Sounder" - has he checked similar numbers for suburban bus routes? And how's about applying MacDonald's petty "logic" to his cherished freeways. Many freeways remain 95% empty during a large portion of the day, especially since the recession hit. Should we ...

Posted Mon, Apr 4, 3:33 p.m.

It's no coincidence that Doug MacDonald and John Niles both do work for the Discovery Institute: both men have been all over the map with their flip-flopping transportation theories (never practise, mind you). Combine the goofy Intelligent Design - inspired transport theory with each man's personal vendettas against ST / ...

Posted Thu, May 27, 11:56 p.m.

"Anonymous commenting is important because it is fundamentally democratic. When writers are anonymous, readers must grapple with actual arguments, not with credentials or affiliations." BINGO, rhino. Back in Ted's day it was ALL ABOUT his pals in the Snooty Class and their mostly meaningless credentials. Name brands were more prolific ...

Posted Tue, Apr 27, 12:17 p.m.

Looks like Portland's Wells is giving Arizona's Ted Van Dyk a run for his money in the way of ornate / ridiculous transit conspiracy theories. Laziness, detachment and and fringe sources can be blamed for this ongoing mind circus. And, yes, John Niles gets paid by Kemper Freeman to spew ...

Posted Sun, Apr 25, 10:41 a.m.

Hey, Lincoln, here's what the General Manager of that Las Vegas transit agency had to say about their new BRT program: Asked whether supporting BRT was the best choice or merely a pragmatic one, Snow said this: “Honestly, I prefer electric light-rail. If we had the money and the resources, ...

Posted Sun, Apr 25, 10:38 a.m.

Lincoln and Ted Van Dyk really crack me up with this notion that Las Vegas BRT can be Seattle BRT. And China BRT can be Seattle BRT. Yeah - all we need is a zillion gambling tourists, huge grand boulevards, and expanses of flat pavement. Even funnier: when Lincoln, MacIaac, ...

Posted Wed, Apr 21, 11:19 p.m.

Oh, sorry. It would appear crossrip IS Emory Bundy, of monofail and personal ret@rded transit (PRT) fame. My bad for referring to them as separate entities.

Posted Wed, Apr 21, 11:10 p.m.

Ironic that "crossrip" (and jniles) dedicated years of their lives to the monorail tea party movement. But, when the house of cards fell, crossrip, jniles and (Van Dyk favorite) Emory Bundy all pretended they didn't even know what a monorail was. Even James MacIsaac got on that monofail bandwagon for ...

Posted Wed, Apr 21, 10:59 p.m.

"King County Executive Ron Sims discovered this late in his term, and called for diversion of funds to bus service," Ted Van Dyk proves he is still as detached as ever (see: Pheonix snowbird condo paid for by corrupt Watergate era corporate cash). Here's what Ron Sims ACTUALLY saw: 1) ...

Posted Wed, Apr 21, 8:18 a.m.

Ted Van Dyk and John Niles are MASTERS at beating their dead horse...err, horsepower.

Posted Wed, Feb 17, 8:41 a.m.

Next week we can look forward to "Light Rail: Seattle's Hiroshima!" I wonder if Mr. Van Dyk is enjoying the popular rail line out there in Phoenix?

Posted Tue, Feb 16, 7:58 a.m.

After reading Bernard Fall, I do so wish you had exercised your independent thinking skills in 1968, and convinced Hubert H. Humphrey to NOT blindly follow LBJ off the cliff. Humphrey was way too late in declaring his independence from Johnson. Instead, we got Nixon and his 'secret plan'. ------------------ ...

Posted Tue, Feb 16, 7:43 a.m.

The horrors of Vietnam = the horrors of light rail. Truly one of the most pathetic Van Dyk logic leaps yet! If I hadn't been laughing at Van Dyk's strange obsession with rail transit over the years, I would think this column was an early April Fool's joke. Andy, if ...

Posted Fri, Feb 5, 9:47 a.m.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, lorenbliss. Instead of worrying about avoiding damnation in the afterlife, why not skip all this damnation while you're still on the planet?

Posted Fri, Feb 5, 12:13 a.m.

Yep, we're all morons and oppressors, lorenbliss. I do what I can each and every day to help (without being patronizing) each and every poor, disadvantaged, elderly and infirm person in my neighborhood. Oftentimes I end up aiding those who are just down on their luck. And I do so ...

Posted Thu, Feb 4, 11:50 p.m.

allieger: thanks for adding some factual information to Kent Kammerer's mythology-driven perspective. God knows it's easy to appeal society's emotions using hearsay and fear (sometimes it seems that the Internet was designed for the Kent Kammerers and Karl Roves of our time). But every once in a while, a sane ...

Posted Thu, Feb 4, 11:38 p.m.

Kent Kammerer is well known for his pithy, self-centered NIMBY perspective. But this one has got to take the cake. Yeah - baby boomers are getting knee replacements. But, do they deserve years of free parking because they spent the last three decades skiing, running around Green Lake or playing ...

Posted Fri, Jan 8, 3:31 p.m.

That parking garage jniles wistfully refers to (in true Kemper Freeman form) costs $130 for 5 days of parking. So, while Niles and other anti-transit voices bemoan the tragic 5 minute "windy, rain soaked death march" from the Link station to the airport terminal, I would imagine the average Puget ...

Posted Fri, Jan 8, 3:18 p.m.

"Upgraded buses" in the paved world of John Niles = worse than we have now. I say worse, because projected job and population growth will further degrade the existing bus network, as already crowded arterials will become parking lots in a decade or two. And rush hour will stretch out ...

Posted Fri, Jan 8, 9 a.m.

If you are driving all the way into Seattle from Snohomish County, you might as well just continue on into SeaTac - to the sea of cement and cheap shuttle connected satellite parking. I would suggest sticking to transit the whole way. Take Sounder / Amtrak Cascades commuter rail or ...

Posted Wed, Nov 4, 10:06 a.m.

When Ted Van Dyk automatically deems the Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel "cost effective." And transit projects cost-ineffective. You really have to wonder what formula he's using. Something tells me it goes something like this: Move cars - good. Move people - not so good. And what happened to those "monied ...

Posted Wed, Nov 4, 2:46 a.m.

"The deep-bore tunnel replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be costly but, in the end, does seem to offer compensating benefits for the investment." And, with one sentence, Ted Van Dyk proves that he will always give freeway projects the benefit of the doubt - while criticizing transit projects ...

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 9:34 a.m.

Sean - you're mistaken in your decision to withold support for Crosscut because Van Dyk offends you politically. The marketplace of ideas should not be homogenous - it kinda defeats the purpose. In fact, I would kill to read a smart conservative on Crosscut, or a renegade Democrat from a ...

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 9:14 a.m.

Well, serial_catowner, that crony machine is what got Ted Van Dyk to where he is today. Maybe that's why he could endorse Hutchison as a credible and knowledgeable candidate while keeping a straight face. We all know why Ted was willing to sacrifice his credibility for hers: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2010120821_execlightrail23m.html See, Suzie ...

Posted Thu, Oct 22, 9:21 a.m.

Lou Guzzo, or Ted Van Dyk's other pseudonym - Ed Anger, famous (spoof) columnist for the Weekly World News. Ted Van Anger calls Hutchison a "credible change agent." Which can only mean one thing: the guy doesn't live here anymore. Van Guzzo has been known for being totally removed from ...

Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6:04 p.m.

http://horsesass.org/?p=20502 My sentiments, exactly. Only in the land of Ted Van Dyk can 68-32 be characterized as "narrowly passing".

Posted Wed, Aug 26, 12:59 a.m.

"When Nickels conceded on Friday I had a deep feeling that I could quite figure out immediately: it was a sense of liberation from oppression." Oh, good Lord in heaven. It's just so appropriate the Dinosaur Star goes to unter, who named himself after his victim's complex. Oppressed? By what? ...

Posted Tue, Aug 25, 9:40 p.m.

And when Chris Van Dyk mentions "complaints dissed by the city," he is referring to his lobbying firm - Bainbridge Island Associates - representing a gas station and drive-thru fast food businesses which whined endlessly about road safety improvements that supposedly hurt their bottom line. You can tell Chris Van ...

Posted Tue, Aug 25, 9:30 p.m.

Chris Van Dyk: you continue to prove yourself as the most poorly informed, overpaid, sellout-to-big-business political consultant out there today. Nickels' did best in the 37th and 11th leg districts. You know, the neighborhoods "most impacted" by light rail construction. Seriously, it's amazing to me that the Taxi Owners Association, ...

Posted Wed, Aug 19, 1:15 a.m.

Nickels did poorly for one simple reason: people "don't like his personality." it doesn't matter whether it's rural Appalachia, or Wallingford, voters everywhere base their votes on gut feelings. How do you think W got elected 1 1/2 times? Mike McGinn, who isn't qualified to be dog catcher, mastered the ...

Posted Tue, Aug 11, 6:29 p.m.

Oh, bubbleator, do your ears perk up when the year 1962 is mentioned? And how nice we have Walker - aka Kris Fuller - who re-defines the hardcore NIMBY image by filing lawsuits to stop the scourge of skateparks from her Green Lake neighborhood. And my God, Cameron. Decide to ...

Posted Tue, Aug 11, 1:54 p.m.

Kent Kammerer: sticking his head in the sand and celebrating suburban sprawl, since 1962.

Posted Tue, Aug 4, 6:28 p.m.

Ted Van Dyk issues his annual "kiss of death" endorsement list. We now know who's NOT gonna win. R on Beacon Hill: Van Dyk doesn't sweat small details like that. He doesn't even live here half the year. When Crosscut pitched themselves as "news from the great beyond," Van Dyk ...

Posted Wed, Jul 22, 7:32 a.m.

Skip has his Joel Connelly "light rail isn't the devil I thought it was" moment. Amazing what on-the-ground observations can do for provincial journalists and Lesser Seattle journalism. Most populist/conservative/Liberaltarian light rail critics form their opinions looking through the windshields of their cars - or the rearview mirror of Interstate ...

Posted Tue, Jul 21, 10:34 a.m.

R on Beacon Hill: Mr. Van Dyk's sources like to portray DC's Metro system as an abomination. Folks who live and work in the other Washington would tend to disagree. There are several examples of BRT, PRT, Monorail buyers' remorse, however. Although many BRT projects have worked out just fine.

Posted Tue, Jul 21, 10:29 a.m.

Prop 1 passed "only narrowly" last year? Sometimes I wonder whether Mr. Van Dyk is posting from the same planet. As a long-time political "observer," Van Dyk knows darn well 57% is a virtual landslide, especially in the middle of an economic meltdown. One possible reason for Ted Van Dyk's ...

Posted Mon, Jul 20, 3:46 p.m.

Skip coulda just saved us all a bunch of time, and stated what makes him such a has-been / light rail critic: Mossback doesn't WANT Seattle to 'grow up'. Do you really think car-obsessed Lesser Seattle would spend so much time assailing real mass transit if they thought it wouldn't ...

Posted Fri, Jul 17, 12:17 a.m.

"Residents of the housing projects," eh? 10ftcommute epitomizes the white flight hermit / basement dweller who hasnt been down in the valley for a couple decades. Stuart Jenner has an excuse for his usual misinformed clap-trap (although this one wasn't so bad) He lives in the land of cul de ...

Posted Wed, Jul 8, 3:21 p.m.

In this article, Art Skolnik is revealed as somebody who bases his views on pure speculation: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=200107168&slug;=rail16m

Posted Wed, Jul 8, 2:51 p.m.

Sorry - scroll down to page 29 for the stats and charts.

Posted Wed, Jul 8, 2:49 p.m.

John Niles distorts the truth when he uses endless fear tactics around rail fatalities. But, then again, he's paid to misinform by two local right wing think tanks. Car and highway apologists like Niles LOVE to toss out fatality rates, and exclude suicides in their calculations. How many times do ...

Posted Mon, Mar 23, 9:15 a.m.

Also, if you feel as if you've been slandered, I would take it up with the New York Times. Maybe they are willing to remove that reference to the Dairy Producers cash. Or, you could pull up that article yourself, and correct the record here. I am perfectly willing to ...

Posted Mon, Mar 23, 8:59 a.m.

Come again, Mr. Van Dyk? Each and every thing I wrote is backed by historical fact. I don't just make things up out of thin air to suit my ideology. The only conjecture I've employed relates to my theory as to why you always lash out at business interests, politicians ...

Posted Mon, Mar 23, 12:03 a.m.

One more item for dericjones: if you enjoy researching Ted Van Dyk's book-worthy career, look up the chapter about a briefcase full of cash delivered to Nixon's people by Van Dyk'e people. See, a large dairy industry association bet the bank on Humphry's campaign...at the same time they were pursuing ...

Posted Sun, Mar 22, 11:36 p.m.

dericjones: you weren't off topic at all. The source of Ted Van Dyk's animousity towards elected officials, zillionaires, and the corrupting influence of money and politics is based on his life story. In other words, Van Dyk finds corruption under every rock, because you could actually find it throughout his ...

Posted Tue, Feb 24, 2:26 p.m.

Where has Lincoln been? In his car, cursing bicyclists who he believes shouldn't be allowed on public streets, and dreaming of a day when transplants (like him) are no longer allowed in to 'his' city. He wants the roads widened, and the growth spigot turned off. Makes sense, right? Well, ...

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 8:48 a.m.

So, John Fox thinks single family housing is key to affordable housing. Right. That idiotic notion lines up nicely with his opposition to public transit. The only displacement going on here is the diplacement of non-brain matter inside Fox's head. Ask any respectable affordable housing advocate in this state, and ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 11:07 p.m.

I know John Niles won't find any need to defend his horrendously inconsistent record on transit on the grand scale. But, maybe - just maybe - he will link to this grand plan he refers to out of DC. The one where buses fill the future capacity needs of his ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 10:55 p.m.

When John Niles is trying to scare people with the "death train from hell," he emphasizes the speed and length of Link trains speeding through the Rainier Valley. When Mr. Right Wing Think Tank trying to scare people (the 11 people who take him seriously) with capacity concerns in 2030, ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 5:52 p.m.

I've come to believe Deb Eddy was the one member of that goverance reform effort who never figured out the whole purpose was to sharply limit the expansion of light rail in this region. Getting to John Niles' perpetual scare tactics: the Citizen Panel he cites is supposed to be ...

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 2:05 p.m.

dbrenerman, Ayn Rand is getting a bit stale, don't you think? The world has gone through several sea changes since resisting Soviet tanks was in vogue. Yet, backwards thinkers just can't let go of outdated paradigms. Why, just look at Chris Vance! He was a rigid ideologue for many years ...

Posted Wed, Jan 7, 1:36 a.m.

And what exactly is "the alternative" to PRT Mr. Todd makes reference to...at least in the case of Heathrow? An airport minibus? An automated monorail, like the one featured at SeaTac? Wow. Talk about breaking some serious barriers!

Posted Wed, Jan 7, 1:31 a.m.

Sorry. Scratch the slight praise of John Todd. If he's betting the farm on slow, limited range & limited application golf carts to break the logjam on PRT, and return us to the glory (Nixon) years...the guy really must have abandoned his 20% rational thinking quota. To say an isolated, ...

Posted Wed, Jan 7, 1:16 a.m.

Classic. The PRT cult can't help citing the "innovative" linear induction motors of Skytrain. Which Translink has now abandoned as the system is expanded. These nuts are living in dreamland. Which only strengthens their ideological rigidity and resolve. It's a human flaw, which only reveals itself when certain issues are ...

Posted Tue, Jan 6, 12:25 p.m.

Just so long as wacky monorail/PRT/GRT theories remain conceptual...and avoid the harsh realities of, well, reality - then, they will live forever. Inside people's minds. And as some technical college kid's perpetual dream. It amazes me that mass transit opponents like Skip Berger will always scream and howl to stop ...

Posted Mon, Jan 5, 1:14 a.m.

Van Dyk constantly makes insane and wild claims about light rail, pretending he has looked beyond his lazy spoonfed conspiracy theories to inform his views. He hasn't. And he won't. In other words, 2009 will be just as predictable as 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008... in Van Dyk land. The ...

Posted Wed, Dec 17, 11:46 a.m.

If you want to get an idea where Lincoln is coming from: he spent several days ranting away on another forum, trying to convlnce his fellow Seattle-haters that bicycles should be banned from ALL city streets. The guy is a transportation sociopath. As in, he celebrates all the bad, self-centric ...

Posted Tue, Dec 16, 11:01 p.m.

I get a real kick when Luddite carpet bombers like Skippy "Kirklandistan" Berger need to cut & paste an educated opinion to re-gain a sliver of credibility on this subject. Frozen in time and space, the Lesser Seattle crank hopes modernity will start moving backwards some day; that way, Skippy ...

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 10:29 a.m.

Lincoln is obsessed with large numbers, the same way he is fearful of large numbers of people. I was talking about the cost per average household. Which was larger with Bridging the Gap. You think another set of roads and bridges won't need to be replaced in 10 years? I ...

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 1:41 a.m.

NO HUGE TAX INCREASE. ..and who wants to tell Lincoln that the big property tax increase for Bridging the Gap - you know, paving the roads his buses need to drive on - was actually larger than the tax increase ST is asking for now? Don't worry. Lincoln won't be ...

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 1:36 a.m.

Last bit of advice for Crosscut's newest addition (a fine one, I might add). Ignore Ted Van Dyk. He touted his foreign policy experience when he rolled back into town, and then proceeded to sleep through the invasion and occupation of Iraq. At $10 billion per month, Ted decided it ...

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 1:16 a.m.

Some additional tips on the frequent flying wildlife here @ Crosscut comment thread land: Can't say anything mean about Douglas Tooley. Just read his blog, and you will see why. Lincoln. This guy is a trip. He does an excellent job performing the role of Old Seattle stuck-in-the-mud luddite. His ...

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 12:40 a.m.

Jon Talton, welcome to Seattle, where things aren't what they seem. By the nuts, phonies and cranks posting on this thread, you can see Old Seattle likes to raise its ugly head every once in a while. I see you came from cities with active, thriving conservatives who were actually ...

Posted Tue, Oct 21, 8:31 p.m.

Matt: according to John Niles, Lincoln and Ted Van Dyk, it's the lack of roads funding in this measure which gets them so bloody worked up!

Posted Tue, Oct 21, 12:37 p.m.

And if Van Dyk's faux populist camp ever bothered looking into the incredibly intrusive, controlling, regressive, and expensive "congestion pricing" plans being pushed by Sims, MacDonald, Baerwaldt, Talmadge - the Discovery Institute Brain Trust - they would take a more rational look at light rail transit. If the default is ...

Posted Tue, Oct 21, 12:06 p.m.

As I stated, it would be quite easy to pick apart Van Dyk's worn-out and discredited arguments. But I would rather waste my time trying to convince a hardcore Christian Coalition activist on the scientific importance of Evolution. Look, at least Dino Rossi, Dori Monson, Kemper Freeman, Bill Virgin and ...

Posted Tue, Oct 21, 1:35 a.m.

I gave up wasting time on Ted Van Dyk a long time ago. His arguments are shaped by the paranoid views and correlating disinformation campaigns waged by mass transit opponents Emory Bundy, John Niles and the right wingnut think tanks which pay hacks to lie through their teeth - grudges/end$ ...

Posted Sun, Oct 12, 2:20 a.m.

Darnell Coles is still trying to redeem himself for passionately defending the inexcusible accountability-free monorail board's junk bond dependent finance plan. Funny how far the radical mind can swing a pendulum. The Seattle media - and Crosscut - have ignored one big story regarding Metro Transit's recent financial meltdown. Apparently, ...

Posted Mon, Sep 29, 3:49 p.m.

RE: Good Value?: Some perspective to apply to Lincoln's fuzzy math, lifted from a commentor on the Slog today: Metro collects 9/10s of 1 cent today in sales tax. It carries 400,000 riders a day. It's nearly broke, suffering under declining tax collections and escalating fuel prices. It's not on ...

Posted Mon, Sep 29, 3:46 p.m.

RE: Prop 1 lets traffic congestion increase: If you want to get an idea for how pathetic the 'organized' opposition to light rail is in this town, check out John Niles' stuck in the past CETA "organization" and website. His "coalition" is basically Niles, and a couple other obsessed anti-mass ...

Posted Mon, Sep 29, 3:22 p.m.

RE: Good Value?: "So Prop 1 will provide about the same number of new transit trips as Transit Now, but the sales tax increase in Prop 1 is FIVE TIMES AS HIGH as the sales tax increase in Transit Now. How is this "good value"? " Lincoln, like most rail ...

Posted Wed, Sep 24, 10:36 a.m.

RE: SOUND TRANSIT FLUNKS WASL: LRT? knows full well that ST has posted their financial plans, and cost per household data. It's $69 per average person per year. The manchild math these clowns engage in is just plain Rovian propaganda: anti-transit ideologues know they're lying through their teeth. But the ...

Posted Wed, Sep 24, 10:17 a.m.

vanpools and shuttle buses aren't mass transit: Maybe our intrepid UW Daily writer considers his Moped a form of mass transit? The foundation of Clarkie's argument is a false assumption: the 2007 Prop 1 measure wasn't Sound Transit's; it was the product of a state desperate to fund highways via ...

Posted Thu, Sep 11, 6:09 p.m.

RE: Crosscut Doesn't Ride the Bus: " If anything, the route is too popular." Yeah, Cornichon. But not with people headed for the airport. The vast majority of riders can't stand airport patrons - because they are headed for Des Moines and Federal Way. "I took the 194 from the ...

Posted Wed, Sep 3, 1:38 a.m.

the amazingly clueless Piper Scott: Apparently, Piper Scott missed all the well-researched articles today about Palin's addiction to insanely ridiculous federal earmarks. Yeah, including her early support for the "bridge to nowhere." But her thumb detected the wind at a certain point, giving Palin the ultimate sinner/faux populist's classic message: ...

Posted Sat, Aug 30, 11:55 a.m.

RE: Nobody Ranks Higher than ST: Former monorail apologist Digg Newsvine ignores all kinds of recent research showing infrastructure projects - especially transit infrastructure - dramatically helps (not hurts) local economies. As opposed to his model: the right to purchase cheap stuff made overseas. And putting a tolling gantry on ...

Posted Sat, Aug 30, 11:45 a.m.

RE: "Boondoggle" is an Understatement: One last reality check for Seattle Observer: the propsed Green Line's average speed was the exact same as Central Link's. So much for that claim. Furthermore, go to www.seattletransitblog.com and look for the recently posted chart comparing buses to light rail. Not surprisingly, the average ...

Posted Sat, Aug 30, 1:09 a.m.

RE: "Boondoggle" is an Understatement: Still living that monorail dream, eh, Seattle Observer? Well, if you had actually been around to experience the brick wall your fantasyland concept ran into (otherwise known as reality) you might have noticed all the false promises monorail foamers made turned out to be bunk. ...

Posted Fri, Aug 29, 3:08 p.m.

RE: COST v. BENEFIT: Wow - cool; according to LRT?'s cartoon "math," I get to live for another 107 years. (ignoring, of course, the sunset provisions of ST2 taxes. In any other city, somebody who proposed vanpools as a viable alternative to rail transit would be laughed out of town. ...

Posted Tue, Aug 12, 11:54 a.m.

RE: The tax hike is permanent, not 15 years: From what I know, it would appear jniles is just making those last two claims up. Unless, of course, he has assembled some actual proof to accompany his Washington Policy Center conjecture.

Posted Tue, Aug 12, 11:50 a.m.

RE: Nice Launch. Happy Landing.: The state freeway agency is going to run regional transit, eh dtooley? Um, have you noticed they don't have the ability to re-pave their own roads? You have to wonder when these broken record pet grudges started out. Dtooley has been rambling on about nothing ...

Posted Mon, Aug 11, 6:50 p.m.

RE: The tax hike is permanent, not 15 years: It should be pointed out that sunset provisions are, indeed, included in the ST2 plan. You can always count on John Niles and his associates at Kemper Development for twisting the truth as far as possible - to the point of ...

Posted Thu, Aug 7, 11:14 p.m.

RE: Be careful what you ask for...: Wishing for a reliable bus system is just about as useful as wishing light rail was cheap and quick to deploy. Matt Rosenberg writes a thoughtful piece. One BIG oversight: the decision several years ago by Sims and suburban King County Council Members ...

Posted Thu, Aug 7, 9:20 a.m.

RE: Yes on I-985; No on everything else!!: What is it with all the transportation troglodytes who follow the mindless populism of Skip Berger and Dori Monson (did you catch Dreary Monson on the air two weeks ago, when he spent a full hour weaving one of the most inane ...

Posted Wed, Aug 6, 6:33 p.m.

RE: Madisonave: Oh, I get it. You're a bus driver concerned LRT is going to make your lousy, unreliable, packed, uncomfortable and inconvenient bus look second class. Like most anti-rail ideologues, you're grinding some axe - totally unrelated to addressing the challenges at hand, and into the future. Light rail ...

Posted Wed, Aug 6, 2:13 p.m.

RE: 800 POUND "PICK-POCKETS" BEWARE: Wow, I've read a ton of disinformation and lies spewed by Kemper Freeman's anti-transit camp on grumpy old Crosscut; but "LRT?" wins the prize this time. So, we're going to solve global warming by getting rid of HOV lanes (the only thing which makes buses ...

Posted Sun, Aug 3, 1:32 a.m.

RE: ight to the mark: If Ted Van Dyk had been paying attention, he would notice the primary reason for Sims' opposition to the Sound Transit plan: Sims wants...I mean needs...that sales tax to plug the hole in his extremely expensive bus system budget. High diesel costs, high labor costs, ...

Posted Sat, Aug 2, 10:01 p.m.

Dinosaur Ted strikes again: A 1950's museum? Van Dyk would make for the perfect curator! So, now Seafair is the latest target? Too many people having too much fun. Let's ban NASCAR while we're at it. I like this new mantra for the cranky old Seattleite: give the people what ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 8:15 p.m.

RE: He who laughs last...wins: "The wiser and more statesman-like strategy for Senator Obama would have been to join in the joke, be seen having a huge belly laugh over it," The Pipe Dream: ssimilar satire of John McCain was his unauthorized appearnance on Saturday Night Live's "Saturday TV Funhouse" ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 2:33 p.m.

RE: Choice: Ben, Tom isn't into listening. By reading his comments, you can tell Heller is driven by an intense personal grudge, as he has his fragile ego all tied up in things. Not a good way to learn or challenge oneself. You can literally go through the entire list ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 1:29 a.m.

RE: Tired old car warriors: TiptoeTommy: here's how to get Intelligently Designed John Niles to shut his yapper: ask him (or his right wing friends at Kempet Development Co) to design a BRT plan. The've wasted the better part of $10 million on all kinds of stupid, redundant ineffectual stuff. ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 1:16 a.m.

RE: Good try: Tom Heller talks a good game, but he's stuck in the year 2001. Obsessive axe-grinders always get stuck in the same old mud. Year after year. So, even tho the Same Old Tom Heller moved to Indiana years ago, his grudge is still firmly implanted here. Lucky ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 1:04 a.m.

RE: Prove it: DN: not that you care for an honest answer to your dishonest question. But, just in case: check in with Dallas. You need to leave your basement more than once per decade. Really.

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 12:43 a.m.

RE: Ted Van Dyk response: "After- the-fact analysis showed that the roads component of the package likely would have passed had light rail not been attached to it." Really, Mr. Van Dyk? Than cite your sources. The Sierra Club poll taken right after Prop 1 went down in flames (thank ...

Posted Tue, Jul 15, 7:49 p.m.

RE: Manhattanization: John Niles and Tom Heller - both long-time mass transit critics - provide the prime example for why BRT is a joke. Both proclaim their support for Bus Rapid Transit, but their commitment is a mile wide and an inch deep. Discovery Institute and Washington Policy Center Think ...

Posted Tue, Jul 15, 10:34 a.m.

RE: Sound Transit - an Example of the Corruption of Corporate America under Boomer Leadership: Doug Tooley: tilting at baby boomer and corporation windmills. I thought the subject was transportation? You're right, Doug. You've correctly identified the societal nitch responsible for all of your perceived problems. Now is your chance ...

Posted Tue, Jul 15, 3:42 a.m.

another last gasp from cranky old Seattle: If Ted Van Dyk was looking for a glass bubble smaller than an elevator at City Hall, he certainly found it at the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition. This group had its heyday 25 years ago. Charlie Chong was their head-in-the-sand spiritual leader...and he lost ...

Posted Fri, Jun 27, 10:20 a.m.

RE: A Big "thank you", and a comment rider expience and on meeting unmet demand: I can appreciate the inqusitive nature of both sjenner and Doug MacDonald. But both hamper their intellectual curiousity with petty & sometimes stupid whining. MacDonald clearly developed a fierce vendetta against Sound Transit and light ...