All our multimedia people are still out on the trains, but here’s what’s out there right now:
- The Rainier Valley Post is doing wall-to-wall coverage. They’re a little underwhelmed by the crowds, but I saw a whole lot more people walking along S Edmunds St than there usually are.
- KING-5′s Jim Forman reports from a moving train.
- Scott Gutierrez of the P-I shares his impressions.
- Andrew Villeneuve from NW Progressive Blog is quick with the photos.
- Seattlest has video of Friday’s shindig.
My impression: a well-run event. It was almost the perfect sweet spot for someone looking to ride: packed trains, but modest waits. ST’s hiring of performers to entertain lined-up riders was a nice touch.
Susan Hutchinson came up behind me and my roommate while we were waiting there for the Tukwila-bound-and-back train. For a second, mid-clap, her hands were suspended like two tiny claws and her face in this t-rex like sneer. She looked like a Conservasaurus Rex.
Wow, King TV sent Parka Boy? Link must truly be the important story today!!
HaHaHa. I thought I was the only one who called him that!
When John Keister and Bob elson took the remains of Almost Live over to KIRO TV, they did a whole bunch of skits dealing with, as they termed him, “Parka Boy”
See here:
http://video.asterpix.com/v/12907861/the-john-report-with-bob-parka-boy/
Or here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ip8K0gUlQ
I was on the train with him!
Off Topic, but important:
SF Muni Light Rail Crash: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/18/BA3C18RJGG.DTL&tsp=1
Whoa, I was just in San Francisco last week and rode Muni a lot, including the L line out to the zoo.
I’m curious to see what the investigation turns up. One thing I noticed while I was there is that the trains would run very close together – while one train was boarding in a station, another could be in the station a short distance behind waiting for it to clear.
The voiceover on this one is “Organizers spent over 1 million dollars on crowd control, security, and entertainment”
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