Posted Thu, Oct 14, 3:43 p.m.

Andy - your point has been that bikers subsidize car drivers. To the extent that cars add costs to the street system they more than pay for that added cost. Since 80% or more households have cars their property taxes and sales taxes also go to the SDOT budget. If ...

Posted Mon, Oct 11, 4:52 p.m.

Andy, you don't really want to discuss this, you really just want to repeat your mantra "Cyclists already pay for more than their share of the roads." You refuse to acknowledge that the streets serve everyone by providing the means for trucks to deliver goods and services. You refuse to ...

Posted Mon, Oct 11, 4:52 p.m.

Andy, you don't really want to discuss this, you really just want to repeat your mantra "Cyclists already pay for more than their share of the roads." You refuse to acknowledge that the streets serve everyone by providing the means for trucks to deliver goods and services. You refuse to ...

Posted Sun, Oct 10, 7:30 a.m.

Andy quoting Publicola for anything but gossip is a dangerous venture. The whole "I pay my fair share of taxes so a bike license would be unfair" argument sounds a lot like "I don't have kids so why do I need to pay so much for schools". It sounds like ...

Posted Tue, Sep 14, 5:37 p.m.

It's a gimmick concept. In an existing urban setting there are so many flaws it's almost not worth the effort to debunk. Starting with capacity, the potential for choke points, the difficulty of emergency egress from PRT vehicles unless you have a walkway their entire length (which you might have ...

Posted Wed, Sep 1, 12:15 p.m.

Okay 25,000 I'll accept that - but with the second to last stop on the urban edge I don't see how you can maintain it will not encourage sprawl.

Posted Wed, Sep 1, 10:36 a.m.

The park and rides are basically full. ST is building new ones because of the demand. I don't consider LA's density of 8200 urban density. Redmond has a density of 2900, while Seattle is at about 7500. Building little islands of 5000 or 7500 is not creating the kind of ...

Posted Wed, Sep 1, 9:50 a.m.

Gary - You're right about electric bikes, but depending on assumptions (does the bike riding replace exercise, etc.)bicycle riders, especially meat eaters, use more energy than an electric car. I was talking more about comparing to light rail, but they are even better than bikes. Here is a site that ...

Posted Wed, Sep 1, 7:29 a.m.

Thanks Lincoln the cite of Transportation Energy Data Book Edition 29 - somehow I'd never seen it. I looked it over quickly - too much data. Is there a Cliff's Notes version -;) Sno - yes, we've all been hearing about peak oil since "Limits To Growth" in the seventies. ...

Posted Wed, Sep 1, 7:09 a.m.

Lizard, I agree. Has a road diet ever been undone? mhays - I gave you a cite that referred to an Energy Department study -why would you diminish the site because they may like electric cars? Why can't you just admit that the excess electric power is available to power ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 10:16 p.m.

The idea is that charging will occur by timer in the wee hours. Germany already allows the selling of power back to the utility and with variable rates people will be able to sell some of their stored car electricity in peak hours and then buy back at lower rates ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 6:08 p.m.

mhays - it is obvious that you're hatred for cars can't be reasoned with, but I will try to satisfy your command for sites even though when you were asked you dismissed the request opting to point out the power of Bing. We are discussing what to do in Seattle ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 2:53 p.m.

mhays So you profit off building private parking and wish to curtail public parking? Electric cars are at least twice as efficient as ICE cars and even more energy efficient than bicyclists. It makes far more sense to leverage existing infrastructure than to destroy it and build a brand new ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 8:41 a.m.

jas, if you want a source, any transportation agency will do. PSRC, WSDOT, USDOT, etc., all have numbers that show what the gas price spike did to demand, usually with numbers about total miles and per capita miles. I work for a living, and will skip the bing search for ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 7:24 a.m.

In the past three years, there's been a lot of rethinking about demand due to the economy (short term, but long-term repercussions), the increasing likelihood that oil will get costlier, and the growing evidence that people will change their transportation modes and trip frequency when cost becomes a driver.. You ...

Posted Mon, Aug 30, 5:23 p.m.

http://www.cityofseattle.net/transportation/tfdmaps.htm Actually the traffic count on Nickerson was 23,700 in 2008 and the FTA indicates that congestion gets bad enough on roads that carry 20,000 ADT that people elect to take other routes. There is congestion on ADTs of less but not enough to get people to take other routes. ...

Posted Fri, Jun 18, 6:17 p.m.

An irony here is that SPD was asked by the Seattle Department of Transportation to help stop jaywalking in this part of the city. This area has a higher number of people hit by cars than any other part of Seattle — double that of Aurora Avenue North.. How can ...

Posted Wed, Jun 16, 6:19 p.m.

One thing to point out here is none of the problematic venues had live music. Of all the calls and complaints I fielded during my time in the mayor's office, I rarely if ever received a complaint about a venue with live music. Most of the problems we identified were ...

Posted Fri, Dec 4, 4:06 p.m.

"A superior court overturned his conviction, ruling that the Seattle ordinance violated a state law that decriminalized traffic offenses unless they fell under a long list of specific exceptions. The appeals court agreed." Included in the long list of traffic infractions that can be criminal is: RCW 46.61.520 Vehicular homicide ...