This may be more interesting to me as a Microsoft employee, but there’s a bit in the PI today on what I was talking about yesterday.

The article highlights just how important transportation choices are to our economy:

It’s one example of the company’s effort to appease employees weary of the Seattle region’s transportation crunch. The stakes are high as Microsoft tries to recruit and retain employees amid intense competition for talent against big rivals such as Google and smaller startup companies.

“They’ve got to figure out how to keep people off those bridges if they want to keep them,” said Seattle commercial real estate veteran Gary Carpenter, executive vice president at Bentall Capital.