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Posted Thu, Jul 17, 8:08 a.m.
nibbles: Lake Washington is 200' deep. The I-90 bridge will need to be replaced by 2065 when its useful life is over. Light rail will also need to be replaced at that time. By not building heavy rail we have lower capacity and larger bore tunnels. ST says 520 can't ...
MOREPosted Sat, Jun 28, 8:32 a.m.
Road rage on the Information Highway: = Anonymous posting. When the anonymous poster libels someone the blog should provide the email and isp information they have available. It is true that anyone can avoid reading the comments but they can't stop others from reading the libelous statements. A politician in ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 25, 12:31 p.m.
RE: ail needs to be part of the solution: All the cities you mention have a transit system based on in-city heavy rail.
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 25, 12:28 p.m.
People will support buses: The region has passed exactly one rail vote in the last 100 years. Since 1999 King County has passed two bus only tax increases. People paying to fill their cars with $4+ gas and eating more and more expensive food will be hard to be sold ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 24, 11:22 a.m.
RE: It's not either/or: Go to any city and find in-city transit as the transit backbone. Regional rail is mostly a remnant from pre ICE times. W@HA - no, ICE buses were not around until the 20th C. We made huge errors by building freeways through the center of cities. ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 24, 10:23 a.m.
The ad hominems: Maggi Fimia, Ron Sims and now Dan. But the light rail fans only want to attack the messengers as old white men. They say Dan has no new arguments but they have never refuted the arguments in the past. They criticize the critics for having a 20th ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 24, 7:55 a.m.
Ron Sims and Maggi Fimia are white and over 60: Bill many people like Ron and Maggi support transit but have come to the conclusion that light rail is a bad investment. Not one light rail city has a better journey to work mode share than Seattle. Imagine how much ...
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