I know it is not really related but most of us don’t have permissions to start original posts, so like earmarks in Congress, we have to stick our thoughts sometimes in unrelated posts!

Anyway, I wanted to report that I took the ST Link Lunch Time bus on Friday.

This was my second trip along the line and have to report that most of what we were taken to was pretty spectacular in the main, although I have a number of reservations that certain sections will be ready in time. The tunnel portals, approaches and the Beacon Hill Station entrance (we were not taken underground so don’t know about the station proper)all looked like they had much work left to do. The Mount Baker Station entrance to the tunnel looks months away from completion and there didn’t seem to be much that we could view on Beacon Hill to suggest that this too is anything but months away from completion. I do hope they can landscape the tunnel entrances in time.

The rest of the line looks great. We saw a few trains moving around and our hosts told us that International Boulevard would be closed the night of January 30th so they could place the pedestrian walkway over it to the SeaTac Airport Station.

Other than this, not a whole lot to say – only six more months to go – longer than the interminal gap between the election and Obama getting inaugurated!

Thanks

Tim