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Featuring a Seattle Transit System bus driver. (h/t Erik Griswold)

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The reconstituted STB Editorial Board is beginning its endorsement process for the general election. We have the information we need on Seattle City Council races, Move Seattle, and the Community Transit measure, and are looking at some races outside Seattle. If there are any you’re afraid we’re going to miss, please say so in the […]

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With the proposed U-link restructures headed for council this week, I recorded a podcast with Zach and David to talk about the restructure, the history, and what will change when U-link opens next year. We tried to give a good overview of the changes, some of the challenges (both technical and political) and the […]

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Is the Move Seattle transportation levy a smart investment of property-tax dollars? That was the question at Seattle Speaks, a community forum televised live on Seattle Channel from Town Hall on Tuesday night. The $930 million levy has been touted by city leaders as the key to a safe, interconnected, affordable and innovative city. But […]

SDOT paints West Seattle Bridge bus lanes red, cites statistics on improved compliance elsewhere. Are developers paying their fair share? “new construction now accounts for 25 percent of the city’s sales-tax revenue.” ($) Expedia move slips from 2018 to 2019, various commuter incentives in play. ST Board approves limited permit parking at 10 lots. Developer […]

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This November’s election is big, with the entire Seattle City Council up for election and at least four incumbents out, and Move Seattle and Community Transit Now on the ballot. This Monday, October 5, is the deadline to register to vote or change your voter registration address. You can register or change your address online, […]

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Shoreline’s 145th St Multimodal Study Open House materials are online. You can participate in the “citizen exercise” through October 11th. ST Board approves reserved permit parking at some of its lots. SDOT taking over management of Pronto Bike Share. How Seattle’s proposed commercial linkage fee will work. I-405 toll lanes having little effect on general-purpose traffic […]

Bay D before 2012 bus restructure / photo by Oran I used my rare afternoon off Wednesday to check out the state of Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel joint operations, now that Link Light Rail trains are running every six minutes each direction during peak, and six bus routes have been moved upstairs. A pair of […]

We are waaaay overdue for a Bike News Roundup. So I hope you’re ready to sink the rest of your day into a couple weeks of interesting transportation news from around the region and the world. First up! The Late … Continue reading →

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Here’s a question I’m asked occasionally: void M<T>(T t) where T : Animal { // This gives a compile-time error: if (t is Dog) ((Dog)t).Bark(); // But this does not: if (t is Dog) (t as Dog).Bark(); } What’s going … Continue reading →

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35th Ave road diet lowered bus peak-direction travel times, hurt contra-peak. King County Housing Authority buys 300 apartments next to TIBS. Shefali Ranganathan gives 10 good reasons to vote for Move Seattle. Seattle’s District 3 debate covered a lot of relevant issues. ST 566 catches fire ($). Breaking down data from Pronto’s first year. WSDOT […]

One of the more interesting tensions in the urbanist left is over development taxes. Everyone is looking for a funding source to build subsidized housing, and skimming from developer profits is an attractive possibility. On the other hand, too much taxation will deter development, and exacerbate the housing shortage from the other end of the […]

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In last week’s episode of FAIC I was discussing code of the form: if (animal is Dog) ((Dog)animal).Bark(); Specifically, why the cast was illegal if the variable tested was of generic parameter type. Today I want to take a bit … Continue reading →

Martin and I discuss the STB endorsement process, and where the editorial board netted out with various candidates. For reference: Seattle endorsements Measures Suburban races Lisa Herbold on SF zoning Martin’s rebuttal How Seattle’s housing mix stacks up https://media.blubrry.com/seattletransitblog/s3.amazonaws.com/stb-wp/wp-content/podcasts/STB_podcast_4.mp3

SDOT finally discouraging construction sidewalk closures. WSDOT resuming work on landslide reduction along Cascades route. Nationwide vehicle miles traveled (VMT) going up again. Seattle Bike Blog crushes the Seattle Times no-vote ($) on Move Seattle. Eastbound I-90 to one lane this weekend; no special provision for transit. At the end of this interesting essay about Denmark is […]

In part one I gave a bunch of reasons to reject the proposed feature where the compiler infers additional type information about a local variable when inside the consequence of a conditional statement: if (animal is Dog) { animal.Bark(); // … Continue reading →

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David covered the goodies in Sound Transit’s 2016 Draft Service Implementation Plan on Tuesday. Most of the big changes, including opening the new light rail stations, the additional daily Sounder runs, the new ST Express route 541, and long-term construction re-routes on routes 555, 556, and 560 still have to be approved by the ST […]

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