Comments on: Bellevue’s Proposed 405 Station: Much Less TOD

By: Reminder: ST Downtown Bellevue Open House Tonight - Seattle Transit Blog

Reminder: ST Downtown Bellevue Open House Tonight - Seattle Transit Blog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:16:07 +0000

[...] four editorials against C14E, regarding siting, placement, TOD, and [...]

By: Today in Transitwashing: Tunnel+Transit (Minus Transit) - Seattle Transit Blog

Today in Transitwashing: Tunnel+Transit (Minus Transit) - Seattle Transit Blog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:31:31 +0000

[...] Today in Transitwashing: Tunnel+Transit (Minus Transit) by John Jensen Dan Bertolet notes that Downtown business and labor interests have launched a new website that promotes the SR-99 tunnel as good for transit, and then he points out that it isn’t good for transit at all. Just another case of transitwashing. [...]

By: Wallace Hires Consultants to Promote Alignment - Seattle Transit Blog

Wallace Hires Consultants to Promote Alignment - Seattle Transit Blog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:53:30 +0000

[...] manner, I think many would conclude just isn’t worth the trade-offs in accessibility, transit-oriented development, and ridership. No amount of lobbying is going to change those [...]

By: Mike Orr

Mike Orr — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:41:19 +0000

That’s what the 550 is. :) And the 41, and 71/72/73, and 358… These were all made repeatedly faster and more frequent as demand increased. We already know where the high-ridership corridors are, and they’ve been held behind by lack of rail for decades. (“Held behind” meaning the buses had to endure traffic, and many drove because the buses were too slow/infrequent.)

By: Adam B. Parast

Adam B. Parast — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:30:03 +0000

Yes the last two digits refer to the “parent” freeway. Even number routes are E/W and odd are N/S with numbering stating in the SW of the US.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:57:28 +0000

[Comment deleted: meta-comment on trolling.]

By: Max

Max — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:55:53 +0000

Biggest irony of this entire Kemper’s Kandidates saga: Mr. Freeman told us – 10 years ago – that Bellevue lacked sufficient density to justify rail transit.

Then, he spent a decade building that density, modeling his developments on Chicago’s downtown (I’m not kidding. Look it up)

Now that Bellevue has density, guess what Kemper’s city council wants to do? Keep the train away from the high rise district!

To me, that is irony re-defined!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:15:31 +0000

Yes, I-405 is an interstate freeway. That’s what the I in I-405 stands for, INTERSTATE. Even numbered three digit interstate highways are circumferential (like I-405) separate and then return to their “parent” (in this case, I-5) but are considered part of the interstate system.

By: John Jensen

John Jensen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:08:46 +0000

The “I” in front of 405 is “Interstate.”

Routing is not the same thing as station placement, but I have no idea which posts you’re talking about. If we’re contradicting ourselves, you could do better by actually pointing out some contradicting posts.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:45:15 +0000

405 is an interstate freeway?

BTW, STB bloggers in the past have written that light rail routed adjacent to freeways does have significant benefits. Why the silence now?

By: Blue Swan

Blue Swan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:56:08 +0000

I don’t know why they have to do all this planning and super-architecting.

Why not build the system empirically?

Try a bunch of different SoundTransit Express Bus options to simulate a light rail corridor and see what people like/ride/want more of and then go with it.

Gets rid of analysis paralysis.

By: Anc

Anc — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:40:09 +0000

HugeAssCity lives!

http://www.publicola.net/category/column/hugeasscity/

Took them long enough to get him his own page, now they just need to move his posts from the last couple of weeks there.