Posted Wed, Apr 21, 10:54 a.m.

The minute I saw the title, I knew who the author was. Sure enough, it was Ted VanDyk mounting his favorite hobby horse once again. Ted quotes Doug MacDonald as saying light rail is "a construction project" not a transportation project. Ted later says that light rail "is far more ...

Posted Sat, Aug 2, 2:11 a.m.

RE: ed ink by the globe-ful: Blethen has been very foolish in the way he has run the Times. He aggravated his employees and lost tons of money in an unnecessarily prolonged strike several years ago. He sued Hearst to try to force closure of the P-I, spending gobs of ...

Posted Wed, Jul 30, 10:21 a.m.

Thanks for blogging about this: It's bad enough when they hawk insurance and tires, but they really cross the line when they get into political commentary. The Ms are doing everything they can to drive away loyal fans!

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 11:32 a.m.

RE: Buses can't meet the need: "Buses work only if you create new right-of-way," is the shorthand for this longer statement: "To rely on bus rapid transit for regional transportation in the future will require new right-of-way. Absent new right-of-way as Puget Sound's population mushrooms, buses will be stuck in ...

Posted Tue, Jul 15, 12:01 p.m.

Buses can't meet the need: Thank God we are finally getting an actual debate at Crosscut instead of just the unrebutted delusional and tendentious arguments by Ted VanDyk and Doug MacDonald. Ben Schiendelman is absolutely right: Buses work only if you create new right-of-way, either by imposing tolling or use ...

Posted Wed, Jul 9, 5:15 p.m.

BRT does not meet the transit need: David Brewster's article is right on the mark. The "dozen ways to make bus travel faster" that John Niles lists will in no way significantly increase the speed or capacity of bus travel in the region. Several of the suggestions have already been ...

Posted Sun, May 25, 12:24 p.m.

Sheesh!: Ted VanDyk has the nerve to talk about rail true believers! There was never a true believer like Ted VanDyk who has a set anti-rail mantra that he repeats over and over again. Light rail is used happily and successfully by medium- and large-sized cities around the world. The ...

Posted Thu, Apr 24, 2:38 p.m.

County bus utilization not efficient: As someone who regularly endures uncomfortably packed buses in Seattle, I can readily agree with a call to boost bus service inside Seattle. One way to do that would be to switch some of the empty buses in the suburbs into Seattle where they should ...

Posted Sat, Apr 19, 12:04 p.m.

Governance reform is a bad deal: Sound Transit has been performing reasonably well. It has been building ramps for buses to access freeways. It's on time and on budget (granted, the 2001 budget, not the 1996 budget) to complete the first section of light rail to Sea-Tac. Its Sounder service ...

Posted Fri, Jan 25, 9:50 a.m.

Wrong again: Van Dyk: The NYT endorsement of Clinton and McCain is "a particularly careless one, taken before the candidates' characters and positions on vital issues have become fully apparent" Where has Mr. Van Dyk been? The campaign has been going on for months, and the candidates positions and characters ...

Posted Sat, Dec 22, 2:12 a.m.

RE: Cascadia Center and I-605: jniles writes: "Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute has never advocated building the I-605 outer beltway." This simply is untrue. Here is an excerpt from a long history of the I-605 proposal, whose name was changed to the jazzier sounding "Commerce Corridor": QUOTE: "The Commerce Corridor, ...

Posted Tue, Dec 18, 9:49 p.m.

Ugh!: First, Mr. VanDyk is wrong to say that absent fresh infusions of money from Prop 1, Sound Transit does not have enough money to get to Husky Stadium. Assuming they get the federal grant they've applied for (and for which they've received a very high rating), they'll have the ...

Posted Wed, Dec 12, 12:05 p.m.

Religion is the correct term: "Krischer writes from Cologne, Germany, and his essays are fascinating accounts of the monorail religion as it tries to spread across the globe." "Cult" would work too.

Posted Sat, Oct 27, 11:55 p.m.

RE: LEVY: Cleveland cost $68M. Roosevelt cost $93.8M.

Posted Mon, Oct 8, 1:56 p.m.

Honesty is nice but genuine public debate is better: Of course, it's good that Ron Sims is speaking honestly to voters about his opinions and depressing that Gov. Gregoire sought assurances of his silence. However, I am not cheering this individual outburst of candor. The real tragedy is that there ...

Posted Sat, Sep 1, 10:39 a.m.

RE: Hoisted...: He was arrested in Minnesota, which is probably more blue than red.

Posted Fri, Aug 3, 4:12 p.m.

RE: anti-rail left: "[rail] just doesn't meet sub-minimal cost-benefit, effectiveness standards." Well, what solution to our regional transportation problem does meet these standards? And let me state the problem: inability of people to get from place to place at rush hour in a reasonable amount of time. Are you advocating ...

Posted Wed, Jul 25, 6:09 p.m.

Where to begin!: This is a mighty disingenuous editorial by Emory Bundy. I don't know of very many empty buses in Seattle at rush hour. I've been on too many packed buses in Seattle lately. Yes, I suppose you can find empty buses in suburban King County and at 10 ...

Posted Thu, Jul 5, 1:08 a.m.

High rating then, low rating now: The high rating of his tenure and the low rating of today are not comparable. According to what Mr. Hancocks writes here, the high rating was for the zoo, whereas the low rating was specifically for elephants. As he makes clear, Mr. Hancocks simply ...

Posted Mon, Jul 2, 2:20 p.m.

Hargrove's resignation is not that mysterious: People write that Hargrove's resignation is puzzling, especially considering the timing in the middle of a seven-game win streak. But it was assumed by everybody that Hargrove's job was on the line this year. He first broached the topic of resigning not during a ...