Posted Wed, Jul 27, 2:51 p.m.

Pass me a tissue. Yes, let's never build anything in Seattle ever again. Clearly, Seattle of 1980 was the paragon of human evolution, urban design and aesthetics: we must cast it in iron, never let it change. Anyway, who will want to live next to a subway station with a ...

Posted Fri, Jul 15, 2:35 p.m.

More likely the $117 mil will ultimately go to shoring up the finances of the North Corridor HCT project (Northgate to Lynnwood), which is seriously underfunded due to the revenue shortfall in North King.

Posted Fri, Jul 15, 11:34 a.m.

Oh yeah, and I forgot: Sounder, including the D-to-M-Street project which will extend Sounder to the south. This is what the public in Pierce County wanted ST to spend their money on.

Posted Fri, Jul 15, 11:08 a.m.

Is there a cake in Proberbs? "the fact it is dead set against providing light-rail service to Federal Way and Tacoma" Lies. Rail to Federal Way and preliminary engineering to Tacoma were in ST2. Both are going to be delayed or abandoned until a future ballot measure because tax revenue ...

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

Half a billion is five hundred million. Graham St (on the strength of the slender information we have here) is in the ballpark of five million. 500/5 = 100. QED.

Posted Fri, Jul 15, 9:50 a.m.

One other factor Bruce Gray probably didn't want to mention. There was lots of pressure during the EIS process to run Link straight down 99 to Tukwila and the suburbs, making it essentially commuter rail and bypassing the densest population area south of Jackson St. The RV alignment was slower ...

Posted Tue, Jul 5, 9:44 a.m.

The idea that Seattle has a lack of SF zoning is possibly the most stunningly stupid thing I've ever read in the comments at Crosscut, and there's some serious competition there. That said, I agree that this article doesn't really tell us much about how to improve the schools here, ...

Posted Fri, Jun 10, 10:35 a.m.

Possibly the most stunningly silly piece run yet on crosscut. Thank you, Eric, for publicly demolishing this derelict and feeble old argument. People all across the developed world raise children successfully in high-density urban environments with a high standard of living. The American predilection for McMansions and sitting in traffic ...

Posted Thu, Jun 2, 7:58 p.m.

Yes, let's have more "accountability" at Sound Transit like we have at Metro -- the people who brought us 40-40-20 and heaps of politically-influenced bus routes that perform terribly because they're collateral in political deals, rather than intelligently designed routes put together by professional planners. Given the local examples of ...

Posted Thu, Apr 21, 12:30 p.m.

Thanks for clarifying once again that you have no substantive rebuttal to my statements about Cascades and its benefits.

Posted Thu, Apr 21, 11:49 a.m.

So you like living in your anti-rail cave and don't want me to shine any light in there? I figured, but I'm glad to hear it from your own mouth. I have proffered evidence and arguments that the Cascades corridor is growing in revenue and ridership, and serves valid environmental ...

Posted Thu, Apr 21, 10:58 a.m.

So that's a "no" then. Thanks for clearing that up.

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

Do you have anything intelligent to add to this conversation, DavidAnderson, or are you just going to post right-wing rants about Amtrak?

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 9:51 p.m.

The fact that much of the travel is leisure does not alter the environmental and and congestion-mitigation of benefits of Cascades. People want to take weekend vacations, and there is nothing illegitimate about that, nor do I see what it has to do with "marketing." Also, the fact that much ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 4:35 p.m.

Cato's "studies" of Amtrak are highly suspect in general. For example, their GHG argument is that so few people take the train, it doesn't matter that those people emit less. That's not an argument against Amtrak, that's simply twisting out of context the fact that train ridership vs car drivership, ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 3:17 p.m.

Let me restate my comment then. The people who oppose this project are NIMBYs who don't know what they're talking about. Here are the facts: * Cascades ridership has steadily increased since its reintroduction in the 90s, as has its farebox recovery, currently around 60%. There is obviously a demand ...

Posted Mon, Mar 14, 12:32 p.m.

What a shockingly, pathetically stupid article. I've been to Yucca mountain, and I can tell you there's no better place in the world for a waste dump, except possibly Siberia. The choice we face is not "dump waste at Yucca or allow fairies to magically take it away"; the choice ...