Comments on: News Roundup: Stimulus, Stimulus, Stimulus

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:25:17 +0000

Yeah the groundbreaking has been moved to jan or feb from december. Not a big deal.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:29:09 +0000

Google Transit, I think?

Which is somewhat impractical at this point, even if they planned it out for months.

By: Obamasscity | hugeasscity

Obamasscity | hugeasscity — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:19:14 +0000

[...] hype, I couldn’t stop myself from following up my two previous posts with a mention of the latest regarding the infrastructure stimulus: “In proposing a stimulus plan that could total as much [...]

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:15:45 +0000

Probably on key with the idea that they kept saying “2008 groundbreaking” and it’s been pretty much in earnest with no big to-do.

I’m just ready for it to ramp up finally. And thankfully, we’ve got the Streetcar and Link to hold us over. Oh, and Sounder.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:57:46 +0000

What does that mean?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:57:08 +0000

There’s little worry that it’ll open that late.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:21:06 +0000

(Realistically, it’s just incomplete, somewhat “safe” info– it happens)

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:16:14 +0000

Not to be inflammatory, but vague and misleading reporting is the de jure at the Capitol Hill Times. They even got ref’d by Sound Transit on the ST2.1 website’s fact check section for harping on the $107bn figure.

By: alexjonlin

alexjonlin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:59:22 +0000

Huh the article about the Capitol Hill Station says it’ll open in 2016 or 2017… does that mean that there’s a possibility it could open that late? I hadn’t heard anything about that before…

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:03:48 +0000

would be cool if y’all’s new service was on GTransit on launch date.