Comments on: News Round Up: 71 Days

By: Zed

Zed — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:47:35 +0000

No, I don’t remember his name. I wasn’t really paying attention to the beginning of the interview, too distracted by traffic! I’ve been trying to find confirmation, but can’t come up with anything at this point.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:42:16 +0000

My crazy 2018 prediction may come true after all!
http://seattletransitblog.com/2009/03/18/author-poll-link-completion/

By: mike

mike — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:44:43 +0000

$124 is ridiculous.

in europe (germany/switzerland) it’s 40 euros, you have to pay on the spot- they’ll escort you to an ATM. more than 3 times and foreigners can get deported.

they also make it so that you purchase passes on the train/bus so you don’t end up waiting forever at stops where large quanitites of people board. stops are also usually more than a block away, so the bus system is a lot more functional and efficient. ah yes, those crazy quasi-socialist countries and their efficient public transportation systems…

By: alexjonlin

alexjonlin — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:52:18 +0000

That would be awesome. And that would be great for publicity for ST too. Not just the questionable “on time and under budget” that we kept saying last year, but really early and on budget.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:58 +0000

Oh, man, community service would be great. We could make them clean stations.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:20:27 +0000

Do you remember the name?

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Hm, only $468.05? And they’re including the replacement cost of their vehicle? Maybe we need a higher car tab fee…

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:43:41 +0000

Does someone know what the width is, curb to curb, where Link runs down the center of the street? I’m curious how this compares to other planned ROW clearances.

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:03:12 +0000

Good post on the sinkholes! at the Capitol Hill blog:

http://tinyurl.com/pduygb

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:24:44 +0000

Seems like $124 is a little low. Something like LA’s fine of $250 minimum along with community service would be more along the lines of what I think.

By: EvergreenRailfan

EvergreenRailfan — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:26:48 +0000

$250 plus 48 hours of community service, even better for a fine. I shudder to think what could happen to a fare cheat in Phoenix, with that tough sheriff of their’s!

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:22:02 +0000

Fine in L.A. is $250 plus 48 hours of community service.

A couple of other important things came out of 1971: Southwest Airlines and UNIX.

It was also the year Jim Morrison died; A Big Blue Bus is referred to twice in The Doors’s classic 1967 song “The End”. The Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines as it was called at the time, would have been very familiar to Morrison in his life around UCLA and Venice California and they have always painted their buses in varying shades of blue. The agency is today officially named Big Blue Bus.

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:16:45 +0000

I was listing to KUOW on the way home. They had a short blurb about the money ST is getting early from the feds. But what was interesting is the spokesman they interviewed said that ST might move up the schedule for the extension to Northgate. He said that if they start on engineering now that they could get to Northgate 2 years earlier than planned, 2018 instead of 2020. I think this might depend on some stimulus money coming in though. It would be great to get to Northgate 2 years after University Link opens.

By: EvergreenRailfan

EvergreenRailfan — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:03:34 +0000

$124 fine for not having a ticket, sounds pretty good.

Interesting down in San Francisco, as they are getting ready to send MUNI No.1 off to Pennsylvania to be restored, the 97 year old Historic Streetcar, which has not run in a few years, made one final run between carhouses as they were getting ready to build a canopy so the historic cars at the Geneva are not exposed to the elements anymore when they are parked.

http://blog.streetcar.org/2009/05/1s-last-run-for-awhile.html

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:01:24 +0000

The first comment on the KOMO story:

Yearly Cost of commuting by Automobile: $468.05.
Yearly Cost of commuting by Public Transit: $840.00.
Total Savings: $-371.95.

It sucks that so many people are in that situation. I used to be one of them. To solve this, I quit my job and moved.

Also, that calculator is pretty awesome. If you put the right values in you see this:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6797/43712252.gif