I want busses to parks too! My only argument here is that hyperbolic language doesn't help anything. How can you have a discussion about improving bus service if you're unwilling to acknowledge what's already there, and the challenges that led to it?
Oh yeah. I'm thankful people had the foresight to see development and land appreciation coming, and establish parks when there was still a chance.
Let's do it! Lose the lots, close more roads. Though, if we're talking passive parks vs more activation (eg , activities, concessions) I tend towards activation in places, and maybe theres a certain amount of road accessibility you need to do that.
Discovery shuttle was super popular last summer, no doubt there's more demand.
You keep saying "false". Can you be more specific? I'm not trying to get squirrely on definitions. For Discovery, the 33 stops in the north parking lot, and minutes away from the East parking lot. The 24 is minutes away from the South parking lot.
What do you propose? More shuttles?
I love the question how to change things! Let's assume there's a limited pool of money to actually help improve the situation, what's the proposal? Run a new metro route where there's a giant hole in Ballard coverage? Yearlong more frequent shuttles at discovery?
? Aside from pushing back on the characterization that these parks aren't accessible by transit, I'm pretty sure we don't have any real policy differences here.
More transit is good. More accessibility is good. That doesn't mean we're starting from zero.
Let's talk Discovery. How is car access so much better than transit, given that busses go to the same parking lot where you can park, car access is restricted, and SPR runs a shuttle in peak season to the beach?
"Parks should have better transit"? Agree. Parks don't have transit? No.
Right. It's a set of stairs.
But any Seattle park which restricts motor vehicle access to the interior of the park and doesn't have fully accessible paths is going to have the same problems.
You need stairs to hit the beach at carkeek. Sewards loop drive is closed. Discovery has steep grades
As a pedestrian, I wish both parks had better ped facilities. Eg, Seattle has an easement across the tracks at 70th they've never built. I'm not going to argue that you can't reach the parks on foot though.
Sure! Wanting better bus coverage is reasonable. But I don't buy the overall argument. Those GG stairs are in the park!
Cars are heavily restricted in Discovery. There are bus stops literally inside the park. Yet, it still makes these same "why no transit" lists and I don't get it.
I get that not everyone can walk, but there is great bus service to Golden Gardens if you can walk down a couple flights of stairs like all the neighbors do. Or Burke Gilman.
I don't understand this general expectation for needing motor vehicles for getting people to the beach.
Discovery does! I pass the bus stop every time I walk from Ballard.
Golden Gardens does! I pass the bus stop every time I walk from Ballard.
Just because the bus doesn't stop on sand doesn't mean there isn't transit.
For the city to own the sidewalks, they'd need to own the land underlying the right of way, and in Washington they almost never do.
Still from the pilot episode of Twin Peaks. Kyle MacLachlan, playing Special Agent Dale Cooper, is driving his car holding a tape recorder to his mouth. Text reads: “Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”
happy twin peaks day!!! hope you celebrate with a damn fine cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie. #twinpeaksday #twinpeaks
Chart of historical wet weather flows for King County metro
Hmmm. If new development isn't responsible for our increasing treatment volumes, what is?
Sure, increasing perm helps, but if a lot doesn't perc, that won't stop dev approval and the runoff is going to end up in a combined system anyways.
That might be true in your community. It's not in King County WA. We recently spent nearly two billion to bring 36 mgd of additional treatment capacity online.
I'm not arguing against development, merely pointing out that it's facile to assume that excess sewer capacity exists because we previously used more water.
Urban infill doesn't solve stormwater challenges. Suburban land can't help with urban runoff if it's in a different watershed...
"My showerhead has restricted flow so my community's sewer system has excess capacity" isn't a strong argument. Development changes infiltration and runoff; communities with rainfall and combined sewer systems have ever-tightening fines and regulatory requirements.
I'm excited. Wouldn't have bought tiks years ago. Her reputation, uhhh, precedes her
Graphics from WSDOT showing probability of getting space on a ferry for a vehicle depending of time of sailing. Shows many time periods where the ferry is likely full
I don't understand that ferry graphic.
All it's showing is that you can't reserve space on the Bainbridge to Seattle ferry, especially during the off-season.
Oregon liquor sales are down 2.5% from their pandemic peak.
Point taken, but doesn't this analysis neglect the fact that fare enforcement induces some level of compliance and additional payment?
Bandcamp problem, now fixed.
I dunno. Sounds like a land sharing concept
Hi, Senator expert here. @wyden.senate.gov only does this when he's very stressed:
I'm confused by your suggestion that car emissions standards haven't tightened. Over which time period are you referring?
The fraud comes when these low-effort AI generated tracks are used to generate synthetic plays which gets the creators paid. It's the same kind of fraud people try to pull with ad networks
The gov of WA also shut down the testing program, so that appeal to authority isn't especially compelling.
You think that new vehicles don't have significantly different emission profiles than cars made in the 80s and 90s ?
In a post-CARB world, much of the PM2.5 is coming from brakes and tires
