Comments on: Why No North Capitol Hill Station? http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/ Transit in the Greater Seattle Area Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: daimajin http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-12 daimajin Tue, 01 May 2007 20:49:00 +0000 http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-12 Thanks J.<br/><br/>You've got a good point musely, but I think that part of capitol hill west of the park is being developed quite a bit.
Thanks J.

You’ve got a good point musely, but I think that part of capitol hill west of the park is being developed quite a bit.

]]> By: musely http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-7 musely Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:32:00 +0000 http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-7 Costs of adding a stop include construction, plus a longer trip for other riders. Do enough people benefit from a stop there to justify that? Probably not in that neck of the woods; it seems to have much lower density than U-Dist to north, or the Broadway 'core' part of Capitol Hill.<br/><br/>Keeping rapid transit rapid means ideally having as few stops as possible to serve as many people as possible. Add too many stops, and you've basically built an expensive underground bus service - albeit one with really nice shelters :)
Costs of adding a stop include construction, plus a longer trip for other riders. Do enough people benefit from a stop there to justify that? Probably not in that neck of the woods; it seems to have much lower density than U-Dist to north, or the Broadway ‘core’ part of Capitol Hill.

Keeping rapid transit rapid means ideally having as few stops as possible to serve as many people as possible. Add too many stops, and you’ve basically built an expensive underground bus service – albeit one with really nice shelters :)

]]> By: j http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-6 j Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:50:00 +0000 http://seattletransitblog.com/2007/04/26/why-no-north-capitol-hill-station/#comment-6 Seattle needs this blog! Good to find you. We started a small discussion about your light rail post over on <a HREF="http://capitolhillseattle.blogspot.com/2007/04/light-rail-in-your-future.html" REL="nofollow">our blog</a> -- hopefully interested readers will keep coming to Seattle Transit and start to share their thoughts here, too. Keep it up!
Seattle needs this blog! Good to find you. We started a small discussion about your light rail post over on our blog — hopefully interested readers will keep coming to Seattle Transit and start to share their thoughts here, too. Keep it up!

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