Comments on: First Ad on Link Spotted

By: Chetan

Chetan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:55:10 +0000

Here’s another idea, provide names of businesses and places around major bus, streetcar, Link, and Sounder stops, and charge businesses a small amount to have the announcement mention them.

Ex. “Entering Beacon Hill station. transfer here to routes 36 and 60. El centro de la rasa, and BECU beacon hill branch are near this station” (If BECU opens a branch in the TOD around the station)

You could possibly add “station sponsored by BECU” if the money is needed.

By: Mike Orr

Mike Orr — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:27:13 +0000

Weekend Edition had a story on this: Arizona hangs up on nature’s call. “New York outlawed pay toilets in the 1970s after it was sued for discriminating against women, who need to use a stall while men can stand. In 1990, a group of homeless people sued to insist on the right to free relief.”

So is that why Seattle doesn’t have pay washrooms?

By: John

John — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:22:51 +0000

People are working on it :) Yes, the public health restrictions are onerous, but they can be changed. If you would like to see it changed, and you are a Seattle citizen, write your Councilpeople!!

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:10:58 +0000

The ad actually matches the website!

By: Mike Orr

Mike Orr — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:40:59 +0000

Yes, what is preventing staffed bathrooms with a nominal fee?

By: Mike Orr

Mike Orr — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:35:29 +0000

No naming rights! I hate how SLUT stations have two names, one for the location and one for the sponsor, which are inconsistently used on the maps and announcements. Often the sponsor is not located adjacent to the station, and it aggrandizes certain businesses beyond their intrinsic importance to travellers/tourists.

By: David Seater

David Seater — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:31:43 +0000

There were also all the HTC wraps that around a few weeks ago. The first time I saw them I thought the Metro buses had been swapped for ST for some reason.

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:00:04 +0000

Staffed bathrooms work. But does the law allow an entrepreneur to charge money to use them? I’ll bet there’s some stupid health law that has quashed it. Net result? No place to pee, poop or even shower.

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:58:13 +0000

So long as they DO NOT cover the windows. That is a huge safety hazard which I hope ATU Local 587 has finally put the kabbash on!

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:54:55 +0000

Rats?

By: Lightning

Lightning — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:19:49 +0000

Republican was only a temporary stop until construction on the corner of Mercer and Terry was far enough advanced to safely allow the opening of the station on that corner. So it never was called Terry and Republican. I take the streetcar to work at Fred Hutchinson every morning. Hard to believe, but it does seem that fewer people are using the new stop than the old, just a few paces away. The Republican stop location did seem to make more sense for current passengers.

By: Finish Tag

Finish Tag — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:44:40 +0000

Seattle is getting over it. DPD and SDOT have joined forces to make it much easier to allow for street vendors. King County is really the problem, with their draconian safety laws, but DPD and SDOT are pressuring them enough that things are going to be changing this year.

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:38:25 +0000

@Craig

Premiere Radio Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country and features the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh…

By: Adam B. Parast

Adam B. Parast — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:26:42 +0000

Doesn’t mean that a not for profit corporation couldn’t.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:03:28 +0000

What evidence do you have that the transit agencies themselves have any part in the lack of ads? You may have noticed that advertising is down citywide…

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:02:35 +0000

So we can either pay design review staff for ads, making the ads financially pointless, or we can let the market work it out.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:01:31 +0000

Yes, most people don’t know the difference between the blue and white buses and the green and yellow buses.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:57 +0000

Nice to see you commenting! Thanks for the explanation. :)

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:04 +0000

“tax increment financing”, which you’re describing and Portland uses, is unconstitutional in the state of WA. Sorry.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:21:42 +0000

Not just streetcar companies — early last century, my house held the local branch of the Milwaukee St. Paul Land Company, the real estate arm of the railroad.

When the Interurban was coming through, C.D. Hillman bought a good sized chunk of land between the heavy rail line and the Interurban and my house became the home of C.D. Hillman’s Pacific City Addition to the City of Seattle. (A bit ambitious, 30 miles from downtown, but he sold a lot of people on the idea that the Interurban would create streetcar suburbs of Seattle just like streetcars had done back east. He got all the lots platted and mostly sold in time for the decline of the Interurban and the ascendancy of private cars.)