Posted Tue, Apr 26, 1:26 a.m.

The title of the article is misleading and inflammatory. Of course in the eyes of the sort of morons who reflexively hate anything "green" or "progressive" at all, (go look at the comments to this same article on SeattlePI.com) such a headline is a one-stop confirmation of their predjudices. When ...

Posted Fri, Apr 22, 1:44 a.m.

Right on GaryP, that all modes are subsidized in various ways. Certainly I'd be curious to see where in this great land highways pay for themselves. And not only "liberals" can be in favor of rail and other forms of public transit: http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Minds-Conservatives-Public-Transportation/dp/0982527306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid;=1303461669&sr;=8-1

Posted Thu, Apr 21, 1:03 a.m.

I agree that NIMBYism is no reason to put the kibosh on an upgrade to a needed public service. The Cascades definitely is that. And yes, I agree that the tunnel is problematic and that overall service speed, reliability, and expansion by several more trains per day, requires a solution ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 11:26 a.m.

I too, very strongly agree that it would be a real shame to lose the Sound and Olympics views from the Point Defiance route. That's the prettiest part of the entire route between Eugene and Seattle! Lakewood? To save 6 minutes?? Lame. As for increased freight traffic, I find it ...

Posted Sun, Nov 7, 12:11 a.m.

You for sure have to be up for an adventure, and one problem I've discovered is that lots of rural transit agencies do not run on Sundays, but there are definitely lots of possibilities. I saw and hiked a bunch of the NoCal redwood coast that way in 2009. In ...

Posted Mon, Jul 12, 11:55 p.m.

David Brewster: in undertaking big projects, you should "Double the budget and double the estimated time. And remember, it's usually worth it, if you somehow get it built." Ah, you mean like the original viaduct? Surely the worst infrastructure mistake in Seattle's history (or a close second to tearing down ...

Posted Tue, Apr 13, 11:30 a.m.

Portland has a similiar shelter inside Kelly Butte that was intended as the atomic-emergency "command center" site for Portland city government. In the 70's and until 1994 it housed a 911 call center and now just sits abandoned with its heavy iron doors in the hillside. http://kellybutteunderground.blogspot.com/

Posted Sun, Apr 11, 9:29 p.m.

Wow. Crazy. But talk about a perfect sign of the times. And a cautionary tale for proponents of the new urbanism (which I'm all in favor of, to be sure, but this is what happens when theory meets very shoddy and bubble-driven modes of practice.)

Posted Tue, Mar 16, 1:40 p.m.

Um, reverandmoney? Jim Wallis was never a George Bush supporter. Far, far from it. In fact he is a primary pillar of the evangelical *left*, not the right. It's always a good idea to write what you actually know about! (you can always at least check wikipedia for the basics: ...

Posted Tue, Jun 23, 11:43 p.m.

I live in a Portland neighborhood (Kenton) that is rife with skinny-houses, most built in the past 5 years, and I'd have to say that the biggest problem with them is not that they are skinny per se, but that they are all-garage on the front. This makes them ugly. ...

Posted Mon, Apr 6, 11:53 a.m.

Any tactic can be countered. Next time, protesters will bring receptacles to pee in. There are ones that women can use discretely too (at any rate if wearing a long skirt.)

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 5:25 p.m.

to dbreneman: the thing about Limbaugh is that he IS part of the political establishment. He is not really part of the 4th estate, rather a (like it or not) very important and influential voice and opinion-maker of the conservative establishment (which after all just ruled for 8 years), and ...

Posted Tue, Feb 24, 11:39 a.m.

The author seems to base his whole opposition to Transit Oriented Development on paranoid imaginings of what densely built urban areas are like: puke everywhere, gunshots, clouds of pot smoke, "tenements." (TENEMENTS? It is to laugh! Read your history about late 19th century Manhattan if you want to know what ...

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 1:43 a.m.

Portland's pretty white, yeah. And Atlanta's pretty black. But people always make individual decisions about where to live. All those dang whities moving to Portland, making it ever whiter: umm, should they move to Philadelphia instead? Cleveland? Dallas? Why do you live where you do? Probably lots of reasons. Although ...

Posted Tue, Jan 27, 3:20 p.m.

My understanding is that the State of Washington was going to be named Columbia (since it is the main part of Columbia, the Candian part being of course BRITISH Columbia) but that the idea was nixed when someone pointed out that the name would likely get confused with the District ...

Posted Sat, Sep 13, 1:54 a.m.

194 is great, just needs more service: I recently took the 194 to and from the airport (originating in Ballard with a transfer downtown.) It worked fine. I know that link rail is coming soon to Seatac, but honestly the 194 is quicker than the rail (with its many stops ...