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This is just the “green” version of a Hummer. It’s an egregious example of a trend towards ever more pedestrian hostile vehicles.
It also a continues a trend towards ever more paranoid design.
We don’t live on Fury Road. These vehicles have no place in our cities.
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Great news!! $150 MILLION proposed (w/ potential $600-700 million federal funds) for⚡️200mph⚡️bullet trains!!!
Thx
@SenMarkoLiias
!
#WaLeg
#MoveAheadWA
#TranspoPackage
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❄️ Snow Train! ❄️
Fast, reliable transit no matter the conditions. Thank you,
@SoundTransit
#SeattleWinter
#Seattlesnow
#SeattleWx
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This is a better use of public investment than a new airport.
Cascadia high speed rail can help free up capacity at our region's airports, rather than building an expensive new airport that will damage our environment and worsen the climate crisis. It's also better - and cheaper - than widening freeways.
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Great news!! SB 5528 passes the Senate Transportation Committee! One step closer to making this subway map (and/or many more new local transit improvements) real for Puget Sound! 😍
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Ever feel like you’ve been swindled?
Here's your new highway connector, Climate Vanguard City Seattle.
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Link was designed by mid-1990’s politics and it looks like that will haunt the system forever.
We should not be running “Light Rail” to every flung suburban city.
Seattle needed a Metro style subway and the region needed commuter rail.
NEW STORY // Sound Transit Doubles Down on Flat Link Fares, Queuing Up 30% Hike for Most Riders
via
@urbanistorg
// 🔗
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Ok, we've come up with what we hope is an incomplete but helpful political map of Seattle for those who were confused about about why it's ok to spend hundreds of millions building a 520 lid in Montlake while also being ok to delete CID and Midtown stations in ST3.
Serious question: Why does a highway section surrounded by exclusive zoning and mega-expensive housing get a lid and highway sections next to thousands of apartments don’t?
Just kidding. We know why.
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For those out there less familiar with the genre, this is what a transfer is supposed to look like.
This plus 4-ish minutes to get to the platform and who knows how long for the next train. Call the whole thing 12-17 minutes at peak.
Virtually no one will do this more than once if they don’t absolutely have to.
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We now know the first name of our bus lane hero: Erin!
All hail Erin!
A woman jumped out into a bus-only lane in downtown Seattle and forced cars back into their own lanes.
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Thread: exploring
@SoundTransit
’s three new light rail stations as part of the 4.3-mile
#NorthgateLink
light rail extension, which will add 40,000-50,000 additional daily riders post-COVID, at a cost of $1.9B. The project arrived $50m under budget.
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In a shocking turn of events, society realized that Teslas in tunnels are not a viable public transportation solution. Or much of any solution. For anything.
Want to move thousands of people in a livable city? Build mass transit.
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Breaking:
Citing “safety reasons”
@wsdot
is closing down all Washington roads to cars until further notice. No further information is available but it’s hard to argue with the assessment.
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Biden’s trillion+ infrastructure bill MUST fund a West Seattle multimodal bridge that integrates light rail, bus lanes, cars, & bike/pedestrian right of ways - getting rail to W. Seattle way faster.
@RepJayapal
@Lisa_Herbold
@MikeLindblom
@KromanDavid
@KccClaudia
@samzimbabwe
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This plus 4-ish minutes to get to the platform and who knows how long for the next train. Call the whole thing 12-17 minutes at peak.
Virtually no one will do this more than once if they don’t absolutely have to.
What will it look like to connect from Sounder or Amtrak service at King Street Station to the North of CID 1-line station? (Original video was 7min 18sec)
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Whooo!
HB2123 (cut ST3 funds) failed to make it out of committee and is virtually dead this session.
Thanks to the 1150+ people who contacted your reps!!
Also thanks to
@NoelFrame
who just delivered the news to D36 transit supporters.
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Serious question: Why does a highway section surrounded by exclusive zoning and mega-expensive housing get a lid and highway sections next to thousands of apartments don’t?
Just kidding. We know why.
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Love this message and this is an excellent location to make a point about accessibility.
Placing a key transfer an 8-11 minute walk away instead of a short underground connection is a system defining mistake.
CID station must be located on 4th.
For nearly a third of people living in the United States – commuting by car is not an option.
#WeekWithoutDriving
helps us to better understand access to transportation and support our continued efforts to improve regional and local transit systems.
@JulieETimm
@americawalks
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We’ve been banging this drum for a long time. It is never ok to leave Link riders behind.
If you miss the last train there should be an obvious option available that does the same thing.
NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Sound Transit Should Run Link All Night or Provide Shadow Night Bus Service
via
@urbanistorg
// 🔗
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The coalition for 4th ran out of signs at the Sound Transit Board Meeting.
Hey
@SoundTransit
- Read the room.
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Spending $180M to shift the station a little north and keep this road open a little longer doesn't seem to matter to anyone on the Sound Transit Board.
It's almost like the cost concerns over saving CID and Midtown stations aren't in good faith.
@UrbanistOrg
Westlake Ave, 2pm today (Wednesday). Heaven forbid we should temporarily close two blocks of this critical thoroughfare.
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We’ve heard people say our vision map is too ambitious.
Yeah... no.
Our vision map represents the minimum urban system for a city where transit is the primary mode.
All of Paris Metro's system + stops overlayed on Seattle
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There is a version of the future where this great public space is a common part of the transit experience in Seattle.
For this and many other reasons, a station on 4th in ST3 is worth the fight.
Union Station is still a stunning place for public meetings. And would be a great concourse for a 4th Ave Station.
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It’s been a long road for Seattle to get to a citywide Link Plan (bottom right.)
Huge thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way and
@Spottnik
and the
@seattledot
crew for including it in the new Transit Master Plan.
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Well,
@SoundTransit
cut our statement short but we were about to say that literally thousands of their constituents have reached out to support our official statement.
So, again we’ll say: Read the room.
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The WA/OR highway project claims to save car trips 6 mins (which induces demand will whittle away). Meanwhile, Northgate Link light rail shaved off 27 MINS from bus commutes and built a 100% traffic-free connection between Roosevelt and Westlake - permanently.
Build trains.
We are being told that in 2045 this trip will take 63 minutes during peak morning hours unless we spend several billion dollars, in which case it will take 57 minutes.
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You just don’t get it, man.
The city of Seattle exists to be a conduit for freight. People are entirely superfluous to this grand purpose.
Hope that helps.
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@Walter_Kelley
@hanamkim
Haha, soooo...
1).Around this location there are often more people on bikes than people in cars.
2).The person on the bike is doing what they are supposed to in order to turn left.
3). You can wait.
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Here's a condensed version of our walk along the very bad Sounder/Amtrak to North of CID Transfer that is being proposed as a replacement for the transit hub promised to voters in ST3.
10 Minutes and 52 seconds not including time to get to the platform or wait for the train.
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4th Shallower Advances!!!*
The coalition for 4th ran out of signs at the Sound Transit Board Meeting.
Hey
@SoundTransit
- Read the room.
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The idea that killing CID and Midtown stations is about money needs to die.
The
@SoundTransit
board is comfortable adding hundreds of millions of dollars via other decisions they are making, including the decision to delay making a decision on routing until 2026 (!!!)
Harrell, Constantine light-rail ideas add years, money to Sound Transit planning
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Amazon is urging
@SoundTransit
to spend $140M of your money to make changes that don’t benefit transit riders at all.
It’s understandable that they would ask for it, but it doesn’t mean your representatives have to listen.
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“No backroom deal” but we’re just going to slide this back room dealing consultant $280k to make a backroom de… I mean “encourage agreement.”
-
@MayorofSeattle
City Paid Consultant Tim Ceis $280,000 to “Encourage Agreement” and Build “Community Consensus” for Harrell’s Light Rail Route
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This is very, very, bad.
We need a plan and political support to fix this.
King County Metro to trim 4% of service this fall; not enough drivers and mechanics.
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Media clarifications re: CID station debate.
1). 4th is not in the middle of the CID.
2). In ST plans, 4th is never fully closed during construction.
3). Based on what we know, most CID residents favor a station on 4th.
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We’ve been singing this song for a while.
Sound Transit should *never* leave a rider stranded or worried they will be stuck.
A Link routed bus that does exactly what Link does and fills the service gap fixes this problem.
If Sound Transit won't operate light rail 12am-4am how about running a bus along the route every night
@JulieETimm
? People need ways to get around besides driving at night.
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Seattle Subway will never stop in our effort to build the world class transit system our city and region deserves.
Think our map is too audacious?
Check the map at right and see what audacious cities do. In comparison, ours is but a modest proposal.
#HB1304
helps get us there!
.
@SeattleSubway
has pushed HB1304 as part of its broader
#ST4
effort to expand rapid transit in Seattle and lower carbon emissions and pollution.
#ClimateJustice
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Seattle has a real funny way of dying.
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To be extra clear about how property tax works: This means you pay more property tax so that the Broadmoor Country Club can get a break.
This is what inequitable access to power buys you. Here is Seattle’s Broadmoor Country Club, surrounded with concertina wire. The club pays just $34,000 in property tax on 120 acres of pesticide soaked grass. That’s just 0.5% of the property tax paid by the surrounding houses.
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It’s time the
@SoundTransit
board stopped this nonsense, made decisions, and stopped being a barrier to the agency delivering what voters approved 7 (!!!) years ago.
NEW: Harrell Advances New Denny Station Options That Could Delay Ballard Link
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Tell
@SoundTransit
to stop with the endless process and deliver what voters approved already!
GUEST RANT from
@SeattleSubway
: Join the movement to stop the delays and build the fucking trains already.
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This is really objectively good and we’re really glad
@MayorofSeattle
came around on this.
Credit where credit is due, he was talking ridership and walksheds in today’s meeting. Stuff that very much matters to transit riders.
We’re huge fans of that.
Mayor Harrell also says that the Denny DT-1 Westlake station is necessary with mitigation.
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Want this ST4 map to become real?! Simply click ✅ 'PRO' at: to approve SB 5528!
#SoundTransit4
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We’ve seen a lot of weak “density = bad cuz viruses” takes this past week. It takes a lot of truthiness to make this case.
Back in the real world some the densest cities have done the best job of slowing CV-19.
The key is cooperation. Let’s work together and get through this.
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Ignoring the results of the public input.
@DavidColeAIA
They're asking for public input, what could be more authentically City of Seattle than that?
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This endless churn isn’t free.
Looks like a new EIS could cost >$100M in direct costs in addition to the indirect costs and years of delay.
It a politician tries to tell you deleting CID and Midtown station is about money, they are lying.
Sound Transit is set to increase its services contract with HNTB by another $147 million for a total of $319 million to continue early planning and design on the West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions.
Motion:
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.
@MayorofSeattle
and
@kcexec
are intent on destroying ST3 and the
@SoundTransit
board largely doesn’t care.
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Love this map? Simply click ✅ ‘PRO’ at to help make it real.
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Build trains, NOT Tesla tunnels.
feels like every few weeks a new Silicon Valley tech company tries to “revolutionize transportation” but ends up just reinventing a bus
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Backroom Bruce is at it again.
Pushing
@SoundTransit
to waste time and money on another 11th hour option that is bad for transit riders.
Why? Because transit riders don’t matter - Amazon and Vulcan do.
@MayorofSeattle
Where should South Lake Union light rail go? A look at two difficult locations underground:
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People in the US call 15 minute transit “frequent” - we’re glad to see SDOT frame 10 minutes or less as the real “frequent.”
It’s where transit becomes frequent enough to *really* not need a schedule.
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The Venn diagram between people who say a 10
minute transfer (not including wait time) is perfectly fine and people who freak out if they have to park more than a block away from their destination is a perfect circle.
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Yes.
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Not a typo. 25 new stations. 3 years.
It’s amazing to consider that over the next three years, we’ll be opening 25 more
@SoundTransit
light rail stations in cities across the region, including Bellevue, Redmond, Shoreline, Lynnwood, Kent & Federal Way.
#ToNorthgateAndBeyond
#Link21
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Did you know that tomorrow is the first time you’ll be able to wake up to Seattle that has a citywide Link plan?
It’s wild but true.
Ben deserves a huge percent of the kudos for that.
Can't lie to you, this *draft* map might be a representation of a significant portion of my personality for the last dozen+ years doing
@SeattleSubway
with the likes of
@KeithBKyle
&
@JHopLovesTrains
& many others whose handles I don't have memorized. BTW, we might have notes...
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It is
@SeattleSubway
’s OFFICIAL position that
@soundtransit
’s
#4thAveShallower
in CID, 45 feet below the surface of 4th Ave, is just plain SEXY!
@JulieETimm
@MayorofSeattle
@kcexec
@KccClaudia
@JoeMcDermottWA
@D5Juarez
@TheStranger
@UrbanistOrg
@SeaTransitBlog
@seattletimes
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<blushes>
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There are already enough
@SoundTransit
stations that require TOD to make sense. Chinatown/ID needs a station where people and regional connections already are, which everyone knows is 4th.
The Seattle Times presents a lot of the self conflicting narrative in the article 1/?
A prominent Seattle developer controls about 7 acres around the possible site of a new light-rail station south of the Chinatown International District.
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Looking at Link’s mind blowing popularity, it’s hard not to wonder why the Seattle representatives on the
@SoundTransit
board don’t take transit quality more seriously.
Yes, a new poll suggests Bringing Back the Sonics to Seattle is more popular…
…than Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell
More via
@JeremyHarrisTV
@komonews
#Sonics
#NBA
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Like transit, but, you know... not all that useful.
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Why are we doing this?
To build 400 new parking stalls, Sound Transit will spend about $180,000 a piece. That comes out to a parking subsidy of $6,000 per driver per year over 30 years.
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The
@SoundTransit
board needs to be made up of daily transit riders. It isn’t, and it shows.
Shout out to
@KccClaudia
for being an exception (and an exceptional leader.)
GUEST RANT from
@SeattleSubway
: Join the movement to stop the delays and build the fucking trains already.
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Blammo! $790M grant and $629M low cost loan secured.
Federal Way Link is now fully funded and construction starts next year for a 2024 opening!
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#NorthgateLink
cuts Seattle commute times by MORE THAN HALF across the board (3x faster for U-District, 4x faster for Roosevelt)!!⚡️This is real change & equity. We need
#LightRail4All
@CMLGonzalez
@bruceforseattle
@kcexec
@meetjoenguyen
@CMTMosqueda
@Nikkita4Nine
@Sara4Council
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Action alert! Use this handy/fast form to tell YOUR representatives:
DON’T CUT TRANSIT FUNDING!!!
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Both issues have the same obvious solution: Governments need to actually build things rather than contracting everything out.
The public/private partnership has broken down for a million obvious reasons.
Prices skyrocket on WA transportation projects, and fewer contractors want the jobs
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Transit quality matters.
This concept is only hard to communicate because SO MANY decision makers don’t actually rely on transit.
Transit that’s faster than cars is how we get people out of their vehicles. (
@RM_Transit
)
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The concept of building new cities from scratch is the worst Puget Sound idea since the Empire freeway through the Arboretum. Actually, worse.
If you want 4 cities capable of holding 300,000 more people, let’s call them Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and a Paris-density Seattle.
Christine Gregoire’s bubble is still trying to push sprawl onto farmland by hitching a ride on high-speed rail.
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Car activists are *very hurt!* that bus lane lady is popular and people are applauding her.
Will someone please think of all the drivers who, gosh darn it, just don’t want to obey laws?
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Our rage headache has subsided but we're going to stay mad about
@SoundTransit
deleting two essential ST3 stations at the behest of
@kcexec
and
@MayorofSeattle
The fight isn't over, but having the boss of SDOT and the head of the ST Board pulling strings doesn't bode well.
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Don’t let Amazon buy this election.
@ElectScott2019
is a great pro-housing/pro-transit candidate running against an anti-transit/anti-housing candidate.
In the last week my campaign has raised over $20,000 from supporters who recognize the stakes of this race.
We’re not sitting around waiting for shiny endorsements or corporate bailouts—we’re doing it the gritty way.
DONATE TODAY at .
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💥💥💥
Let’s get a course reversal on deleting Midtown and CID stations too!
The South Lake Union station for the Ballard Link Extension was suddenly on the chopping block in May, but Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has reversed course by throwing his support behind keeping it and building the Denny station on Westlake.
Story:
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You did it!!!
This is already impressive but more is always better. It only takes 30 seconds or so:
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To be extra clear to folks following east DRB drama this evening:
It’s an unstated (though heavily implied) position of Seattle Subway that design review shouldn’t exist.
We are in a housing crisis. The subjective aesthetic views of an unelected board shouldn’t hold any power.
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This is an entirely political process.
The show made of pretending it isn’t feels insulting to the public at this point.
Your feedback means nothing.
Live, work, or spend time in South Lake Union (SLU)? We’d like your feedback! Join a webinar either on July 20 or 25 to learn about the Ballard Link Extension’s Denny and South Lake Union stations and make your voice heard:
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@wsdot_traffic
What do people imagine will happen to the backup that starts about 1000 yards north of here now that the flow of cars to it is less restricted?
Ps: If this doesn’t fix things can we stop doing stuff like this forever?
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But seriously, the community deserved to be heard rather than having Harrell (with public funds) parachute in a fossil industry lobbyist to:
1) Seal a backroom deal
2) Push a false media narrative
3). (maybe) engage in some astroturfing
@KarlAlexPauls
@dseater
@MayorofSeattle
Haha, we’ll take the $280k - but better yet - let’s not publicly fund anyone (or group) to inject any individual’s bias into the process.
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Want light rail up the Aurora 99 corridor?! Yes we’re looking at you, Fremont, Greenlake, Greenwood, Shoreline, and Edmonds….
Tell Sound Transit to futureproof ST3 with a small SR 99 expansion off ramp!
show up and testify for them to build this small off-ramp so we can expand the line up highway 99 without service disruption. it also will make the expansion easier and cheaper.
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@SoundTransit
we’ll be blunt. We need exact answers to the Urbanists’ questions here within the week. It’s what voters and riders deserve.
You’re taking the easy way out. Accept the challenge and prioritize riders. If you need help with ideas, call us.
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We made a big deal about open gangways on ST2 trains after ST3 passed.
@SoundTransit
got pretty annoyed with us about it. Here is why we don’t regret saying anything we said:
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Another big thank you to
@SoundTransit
for running late trains last night to help Husky fans get home safely.
Here is a video of a whole lot of fans getting on a train.
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A tale of two
@seattletimes
headlines.
“Party at UW, Capitol Hill light rail stations costs taxpayers $858k.”
Entire half page above the fold
“Campaign puts grin on tunnel project.” Right column w/Subheading “$4.4M in Ads.”
5x the spending with a tiny fraction of the outrage.
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Whoa!!!!!
Hot off the presses!
@seattledot
released the first draft of their Seattle Transportation Plan. Check out its ambitious map for potential new light rail expansion routes 👀
More at
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These garage spaces cost more per rider than the transit itself.
There were creative and less expensive solutions that wouldn’t have destroy the station area…. But here we are.
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See the tracks in the bottom of this photo? Under that is where the new Link station is very obviously supposed to go.
It’s what was promised to voters. Now
@SoundTransit
plans to do something far worse, far slower, than the already glacial plan.
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Just one day after
@WAHouseDems
vote to cut ST3 by $2.3 Billion, we get a prime example of why they should be sprinting in the other direction.
Hows everyone doing tonight?
Cc:
@WASenDemocrats
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Here we are, spending hundreds of millions on parking while making plans to cut three of the highest ridership stations in ST3.
These garage spaces cost more per rider than the transit itself.
There were creative and less expensive solutions that wouldn’t have destroy the station area…. But here we are.
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CID Community Leaders: Build the transit hub promised in ST3 on 4th!
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Metro Center was an original station in the DC Metro and yet it enabled a direct platform to platform transfer to a later line.
This is the power of having a plan rather than going measure by measure like what we’re doing in Seattle.
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Bellevue has TRAINS!! 😍🎉 Society: 1, Kemper: 0
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This is really disappointing. A knife in the back of transit riders in Rainier Valley, CID, and Judkins Park by their own council member.
NEW: Council Member Tammy Morales said she supports the North & South CID station placement.
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