Honestly, though, Amtrak Cascades was what got me into this, and I should write something about it.

People living west of Sea-Tac would likely use Tukwila or S. 200th stations and come to work. They’d be leaving earlier than the downtown workers, so they would get park and ride space, likely.

Guess which one hates Amtrak?

If you go back and read what I wrote, then look at the wild exaggerations that some of you made, you’d see that there is little in common.

You cannot deny that “Seatac” which we assume is the airport to “Overlake” which we assume is the Overlake TC, is a real commute. It’s not.

I think we can all agree that ST could have done a better job of selecting more ‘typical’ Overlake TC commutes for the new website.

I’ll leave it to the mob to speculate why other more typical commutes to the Eastside we NOT selected as examples.

It’s kind of like Gregoire saying she supports light rail, just not *this* light rail. Really? So which light rail, exactly, does she support? The ones not in any danger of being funded?

Realistically, I probably won’t be working in Overlake when ST2 opens there, assuming a yes vote in November, but I could be. And even if I’m not, lots of people will.

There’s a certain person who springs to mind that puts brad to shame in the hating-LRT arena.

You don’t even need to use future conditions. Today’s conditions justify Link.

But it would help if brad’s perspective included a bit more meat.

“Nobody’s going to ride it” is the same refrain used by every light rail opponent across North America. That “perspective” virtually disappears within a few months of start up.

Case in point: John Stossel “reporting” from an out-of-commission LA subway ten years ago at the advent of their first underground service. Today, 100k riders per day flood the line. Think John Stossel ever issued a follow-up report correcting his disinformation-laden hit piece? Do you believe Seattle rail opponents will ever come clean with a “we were wrong” statement? (if the all-buses-all-the-time lobby actually lifted a finger to turn general purpose lanes over to rubber tire transit – or if they actually did anything to support the deployment of more service, I might cut ‘em some slack)

It’s fine to say all perspectives are respected. It’s not fine to accept unsubstantiated disinformation campaigns at face value.

Here’s one way you can spot these critters – Emory Bundy provided the prime example last week on Dori Monson: he was talking about how easy, fast, comfortable and convenient the 194 is. In contrast, Bundy cited the horrendous walk / death march required of light rail passengers traveling from SeaTac station to ticketing. Clearly, this blue blood theoretician has never been on the 194. Or, he took a midday ride with no baggage. Either way, Bundy obviously forgot to do his homework – as usual – which would have taught him two basic things: 1) tomorrow’s SeaTac terminal won’t look like it does today; and 2) tomorrow’s I-5 traffic won’t look like it does today.

Interesting how easy it is for “the smartest guys in the room” to overlook some some of the most simple facts.

For what it’s worth, I would guess that he’s more supportive of ST2 than not — but he hasn’t said for sure.

The guy just can’t be serious.

Could he be a pro-transit voice trying to make the Kemper Freeman people look stupid?

I can’t think of another explanation for such obvious ignorance.