FYI, the following was sent to Council today. Seems like the smartest and most effect use of what remains of the SMP. Anything transferred to the city should...
More huge (and good) news: http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/12/house_speaker_frank.php ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Michael: howdy, did not get the info, it seems you had a link but it was not included in what I got, can you resend?? thanks Cleve S. ... From:...
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Dec 13, 2006 10:24 pm
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In 1910, Winston Churchill saw at the Japan-British Exhibition a new type of monorail. Churchill was clearly taken by this new form of rail transport and told ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003480651_gregoire16m .html Gregoire calls for voters to decide future of viaduct By Andrew Garber, Mike...
If you are still up at 1:00 a.m. tonight (central time), you may want to check out Modern Marvels on the History Channel. The show is a 2-hour one on Disney...
One of my coworkers has a brother-in-law in Thailand who has become a land developer. He recently built an apartment building near the new Bangkok airport....
Please excuse me for not getting directly to the point in my previous posts. I am simply expressing my skepticism that people can be made to choose to live...
This is precisely the reason SMP believed that car ownership (and thus MVET revenues) would not decline. While there are lots of trips one can take on public...
Greg, I don't know if you've decided to assume the mantle of being the resident anti-transit provocateur here. But it seems like you're picking up a classic...
1. I support transit. 2. I recognize that a certain level of population density is necessary to support a good transit system. 3. The thing about which I am...
let's not get too caught up by anecdotal. I think Greg is pointing out something to be mindful of to be sure. And certainly there will be many that will...
Taken at face value, Greg's original post here is certainly anti-density, if not anti-transit. The problem here is the context in which the post is made. Greg...
Dropping the parking requirement could lead to less parking for new units - which would lead to more pressure on street parking - which would lead to the area...
Actually, Peter, standing on their own, I have no problem at all with Greg's latest posts. And so I have to correct my opening sentence in my last post: "Taken...
Happy holidays to all! I favor providing transit from the inside out. First make Seattle truly a transit city. Make it like Berlin or NY where living without a...
Interesting posts on a new treacherous gound of debate -- this whole free parking/required parking issue. I will try to not be personal and I do respect all...
cleve206@...
Dec 27, 2006 12:20 am
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Cleve, I think you make some pretty compelling arguments, even though I think the whole antitrust violation and tequila/lime comparison is a bit farfetched. ...
Interesting stats on fuel consumption Gary. I was just going through some related stats. I know I'm always going on about how 'great' Vancouver is (better...
btw: Honolulu and San Francisco typically fared the best in these surveys - around the middle of the pack, around 25th. i.e. it isn't just health care and...
Thanks Mitch. Yes tequila and lime was perhaps too humorous and obscured the point, which is that yes, we are allowed to engage in social engineering through...
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Dec 27, 2006 9:32 pm
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This is an item mentioning congestion pricing I posted last month on a couple midwest groups, some of which concerns northwest freight traffic and included...
OR - more people will use alternatives like a car they don't own but rent - either for a trip (rental) or one of the many locations throughout the city where...
Thanks to all for the cheap entertainment this thread has provided over the last few days. I wish to note that I agree in principle with Mr. Gitman regarding...
Mr. Vassilakos, All the time in discussions of transportation and land use in this region, self-proclaimed transit supporters make comments that are in direct ...
Do you think the people who originally developed North Philadelphia intended for it to become a slum? I am sure that during the early 20th Century North...
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