Think Big, Really Big
At the beginning of the 20th century, most Americans walked or rode transit to work. With few hard-surfaced roads outside towns and cities, the horse and the interurban remained the most practical way...
View ArticleMercer and Spokane Streets
Two East-West routes that are critical to a post-Viaduct Seattle are still short funds in the wake of Prop. 1′s failure. The Mercer cost estimate has increased $78 million since late last year, chiefly...
View ArticleElectric Cars
After watching Who Killed the Electric Car? the other night, I’ve posted some thoughts about electric vehicles here. This comes just as Subaru and the New York Power Authority have commenced testing on...
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Mercer Mess
Two pieces worth reading on the Viaduct-Spokane St.-Mercer St. funding issue. Erica Barnett in the print edition of The Stranger, and Larry Lange on the P-I‘s Traffic Watch blog. At issue is Mayor...
View ArticleRationing
This quote from Sen. Jim Horn is priceless: And any proposal would encounter stiff opposition from people like former state Sen. Jim Horn, R-Mercer Island, a longtime toll skeptic. He says regionwide...
View ArticleNinth Ave Goes Two-Way
9th Avenue in South Lake Union was restriped over the weekend, and is now a two-way street with bike lanes in either direction. This is the complement to Westlake Avenue, which also went two-way...
View ArticleCrosstown Traffic
The council approved fixing two crosstown arterials today, Spokane St. and Mercer St. It’s a green light with an asterisk, though. The council says that SDOT can do engineering work and even acquire...
View ArticleEnd of the Road
(inspired by [daimajin]‘s post) I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but I’d like to list another reason for building rail-based transit that has nothing to do with the gasoline that cars burn....
View ArticleGas Prices
This article has some interesting points to make about fuel consumption: Americans spend 3.7 percent of their disposable income on transportation fuels. At its lowest point, that share was 1.9 percent...
View ArticleLetter from SDOT
I wrote an e-mail to the mayor about the comment here from [Seattle Greg]. It was a way to save the waterfront streetcar during the viaduct mess and a suggestion of bringing it north to the cruise...
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