We at Seattle Transit Blog know that our readers like to play the role of transit planner and many others like to think of themselves as a model urban planner. This week we’ve presented many opinion pieces covering a range of transit and urban issues:
- On Monday, Eric blogged a Snow Post-Mortem about the transit system’s failure during last month’s Snowpocolypse.
- Later on Monday, Andrew compared the Viaduct to SF’s Embarcadero Freeway.
- On Tuesday, I blogged about our bus system’s unplanned reduced service last week, and why poor communication embarrassed our region’s biggest bus agency.
- On Wednesday, I argued that the new ORCA fare card/pass is the right thing for our region.
- And later that day, I made the case that the (sometimes confusing) Ride Free Area is necessary, but that ORCA might one day make it obsolete.
- And yesterday, Ben Woosley blogged that Seattle doesn’t need parking maximums and that transit would be hurt by them.
And we have pretty big news from Sound Transit coming up around 5 this evening. Stay tuned…
Big announcement, eh? Probably some sort of epic delay. Or the best it could possibly be would be a STB ride-along on Link.
Glass half-empty, broken glass– that’s my view!
Maybe Sound Transit is buying the PI?
I think the PI is getting a federal bailout
Or maybe they’re buying the King County ferry district, just in case Sounder gets flooded again.
“Or the best it could possibly be would be a STB ride-along on Link.” …during the crash test.
That’s funny!
In the event, it proved to be quite good, but I don’t hold my breath on these things
Tim
Found a great pic of SF’s Embarcadero Freeway showing how it wrapped around the downtown, and was the only freeway access to the north of SF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I-480_Junction.jpg