Posted Thu, Apr 8, 12:28 a.m.

I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were trying to be funny. But frankly, your comments are elitist and condescending. I live near White Center, a diverse and rich neighborhood with many challenges, but also many wonderful opportunities. You reduce it to a ...

Posted Wed, Mar 3, 12:03 a.m.

jniles is a long-time opponent of Sound Transit and light rail. Not only are his numbers off, but so is his argument. He speaks of the inconveniences of transit to argue that most people will choose cars and then uses questionable numbers to say rail won't change anything. This doesn't ...

Posted Tue, Mar 2, 11:39 p.m.

David-- Kevin Wallace's has said repeatedly that his primary goal is not to build a light rail line for the future, but to avoid impacts on landowners in the present. This is precisely the wrong reason to build rail. Rail should move people, but it should also influence where we ...

Posted Thu, Feb 11, 7:45 p.m.

Ivan, you live on Vashon Island, perhaps you should leave this debate to folks in Burien, North Highline, and Seattle. Your friends in the 34th District Democrats are not necessarily indicative of the the whole of White Center. I live just across the line in Seattle and know many people ...

Posted Wed, Feb 18, 11:20 p.m.

Presents an interesting choice for the Nickels haters. Do you support someone who is more conservative than the mayor just because you don't like his tone? What policies do you specifically disagree with?

Posted Fri, Feb 13, 4:04 p.m.

Which county insiders is Bob's candidacy gaining steam with? His staff? I don't think anyone on the council would trust him not to run. He is not held in high regard by his fellow members for trustworthiness.

Posted Wed, Feb 4, 9:44 p.m.

And I will correct your reader's correction. In fact, Dow Constantine probably has the most diverse district in the county. He represents ALL of Burien and Normandy Park, not just small parts. And he represents HALF of Tukwila. In addition his district covers West Seattle, Sodo, the International District, part ...

Posted Thu, Oct 23, 1:05 a.m.

Fun game, John. I wanna play. Imagine a parallel universe where John McCain had picked Sam Palin, the male governor of the fine state of Alaska to be our prospective vice president. Then they hid him from the media for a month while they "prepped him up" on the issues. ...

Posted Tue, Oct 7, 11:40 p.m.

McCain's bad manners: Ted--it is odd that you point out that Obama might have been smirking. The far more significant expressions of contempt came from John McCain. First, he referred to Obama as "that one" during an answer. That one? This is the Senator from Illinois, a man judged by ...

Posted Sat, Jul 26, 11:42 p.m.

RE: No sunset on 1/2 cent transit sales tax hike, and light rail test ride already funded: John Niles continues his 20 year jihad against light rail with outright lies and innuendo. There is no indication that light rail will not open on schedule. Trains are already being tested on ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 11:10 a.m.

RE: Tired old car warriors: Usually those who theorize buses are as good as rail are those who are not actually transit users. I stand by my comment. As for development along bus lines and roads--of course development occurs along roads. But it is inefficient, car-driven development with all the ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 12:13 a.m.

Tired old car warriors: John Niles and Tom Heller are two gentlemen wed to the automobile age. Each typically tries to throw up a smokescreen with a fake promise of BRT, misleading statistics and their own "experts", and then a healthy dose of conspiracy theories about Sound Transit controlling the ...

Posted Tue, Mar 4, 5:48 p.m.

RE: Sound Transit survey is improved, but ...: That is because only car lovers like John Niles seriously want to stop light rail at the initial segment. John Niles has tried to kill light rail in this town for twenty years. He has nothing new to say.

Posted Sun, Mar 2, 10:23 p.m.

a sad band of ST haters plays the media again: I read the poll as an honest attempt by Sound Transit to find out whether people wanted to return to the ballot in 2008 or 2010 and what type of rail/bus mix they would like to see. This is only ...

Posted Thu, Dec 27, 12:44 p.m.

RE: The many are taxed for the benefit of the few: Funny that you mention Duvall and Carnation. I believe King County just passed a Flood Control district that helps that area and other rural areas, but doesn't do much for urban King County. Sometimes you have to do things ...

Posted Thu, Dec 13, 9:31 a.m.

Rail needed more than ever: David Brewster misreads the future for rail in this region. All of the reasons Jim Ellis gave for rail in the 1960's are more true today. The Prop. 1 election showed that there is not support for a massive roads program. Indeed, very few new ...

Posted Fri, Nov 30, 1:57 p.m.

Grandpa Crosscut: It is bad enough that we have to read Grandpa Van Dyk in the PI telling us how much better things were in the 60's--now Crosscut prints him too? Remember it doesn't have to be good to be classic...

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 9:38 a.m.

Profiles in Courage: Dino! is going to try to run away from issues once again. He refused to take a position on Prop. 1. He will try to avoid talking about his anti-choice stands. He will try to avoid taking positions on Tim Eyman. He will run from specifics at ...

Posted Wed, Oct 31, 11:41 a.m.

CWA = KKK: The KKK had millions of members across the country at one time. Only a small minority actually were involved in lynchings and cross burnings. The CWA is one of the groups that helps justify anti-abortion terrorism by groups like Operation Rescue. George is no more out of ...

Posted Wed, Oct 10, 12:15 p.m.

Sightline tells half the story--again: I can see that Crosscut is continuing its pattern of reporting one side of the debate over Proposition 1 with this latest reprint of the Sightline study on the carbon effects of building new lane miles. Sightline chose to weigh in on the roads without ...

Posted Mon, Oct 1, 1:34 p.m.

RE: Skip, do you really think doing nothing is a good idea?: Those "political hacks" you refer to are the same regional leaders who would come up with a new plan. Any new plan will involve law firms and bond underwriting. I don't work at Sound Transit, but I believe ...

Posted Sun, Sep 30, 11:10 p.m.

RE: Skip, do you really think doing nothing is a good idea?: Yeah, we can't try light rail. It has never been tried anywhere in the world. We don't even know if the technology will work. Really? We should try BRT instead. Whatever BRT means. It either means buses stuck ...

Posted Sun, Sep 30, 8:56 p.m.

Knute says WAIT..., it worked before: Once again Crosscut weighs in with another editorial on Roads and Transit from the generation that turned down Forward Thrust when the feds paid almost all the money. Knute says wait, another package will come along. Well, he may be right...but will it offer ...

Posted Mon, Sep 17, 1:22 p.m.

Casey, methinks you protest too much...: Children's plans do deserve a full review, but Casey paints a vision of a poor, besieged Laurelhurst that doesn't match reality. This powerful neighborhood has a long history of opposing almost any development that threatens its shores. They protested development at the large former ...

Posted Tue, Sep 11, 1:09 p.m.

RE: dedicated bus lanes: Mr Niles and Mr. Bundy ask you to accept their assertion that a BRT network could be built that would continue to serve this region for the next 100 years with no evidence that this is true without expensive dedicated bus lanes. We have added perhaps ...

Posted Mon, Sep 10, 12:55 p.m.

Straw men abound: Once again Crosscut has chosen another dinosaur thinker to speak on the transportation package before us. Emory Bundy was a former newsman of great repute. It is sad to see that he no longer has any dedication to presenting a responsible review of the evidence on the ...

Posted Wed, Jul 25, 3:54 p.m.

RE: Missing the point: So, you and Mr. Bundy should be more specific about your solutions. If you want dedicated bus lanes, then tell us the carbon cost there. If you simply want more buses, tell us the cost there. As for the cost--we will spend money on transportation. The ...

Posted Wed, Jul 25, 2:09 p.m.

Road warriors hiding behind buses and bikes: Emory's and the CETA folks love to confuse the public with false issues and this one is a doozy. Not only do they ignore the carbon costs of road maintenance and construction, but they make a series of unfounded accusations about Sound Transit ...

Posted Sat, Apr 21, 12:53 a.m.

two questions: 1) What did you really stand for other than career advancement? 2) Why the hell didn't you build rail when the feds would have paid 90%? Idiots...