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Greyhound may test Seattle's commitment to mass transportation

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 2:47 p.m.

Pepper2000 Spare me the histrionics and victimization. The inner-city bus stations *generally* have problems with panhandlers and hangers on. There's no reason to believe that if they relocate the station to the social services hub of the northwest, the place where we as a society warehouse people until they die ...

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Greyhound may test Seattle's commitment to mass transportation

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 11:16 a.m.

And the terminal doesn't have to be "someplace inaccessible". The Seattle Lighting Location, or someplace similar is fine.

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Greyhound may test Seattle's commitment to mass transportation

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 11:14 a.m.

The last time I went to Portland, just last month, I walked to and from the Amtrak station. In front of the Greyhound station, in broad daylight, I was aggressively panhandled, and offered drugs. Some nutcase couple were having a domestic issue at the top of their lungs just inside ...

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Greyhound may test Seattle's commitment to mass transportation

Posted Tue, Dec 20, 7:35 a.m.

In the interests of preserving the peace in the station, as well as the city's investments, Greyhound needs to be located somewhere other than King Street Station. The passenger base is, to put it frankly, trashy. And yes, I've rode Greyhound recently. And it will be a long time before ...

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Amtrak Cascades: Is it robbing social services here?

Posted Wed, Feb 2, 4:02 p.m.

Interesting how the author frames things as either/or: We can have this, but it has to come at the expense of that. Of course, he doesn't touch on the ridiculous taxation method in this state, or the disparity in wealth (probably because he is well off from his "government service" ...

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