in counterpoint, the very next paragraph from the article: "Shepherd replied that tracks over Washington Avenue would have a minor impact because high-rise...
as predicted by Dick F. many, many years ago, they can't hide it any longer. What will be interesting is to see how long they can subsidize TWO extremely...
Commuter rail figures are a snapshot in time. Costs are high because track aquisition is expensive up front as are signal and other improvements. As...
good point, but wasn't all that well known before ST decided to even build commuter rail, and isn't that what we pay our local and state politicians for, to...
The $38 per ride one-way subsidy has nothing to do with track acquisition costs only with O&M - as I testified to ST if they insist on building LRT they should...
... more ... that ... Actually there are side benefits to having uST up-grade the BN track. And just like the subsidies to Boeing, Microsoft at.al. we pay and ...
I think Wallingford will be a problem either way. The waterfront options lower on the hill all face a similar problem. Wallingford is a long gentle slope to...
... <blee98@d...> wrote: Mix year to year actuals all you ... split ... calc ... The change of the split is what we are talking about - in the year before the...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/167258_lightrail01.html OK - so on the one hand we're told that only 5% of engineering is done so we can't get...
Each route is posted as a range of costs given the level of design. ST painfully learned their lesson that cost estimates don't become real until approximately...
... wasn't ... I have not personally seen the study that came to these conclusions, but I have heard that Ballard and WSea were chosen because (1) they are...
I'd like to think that the ETC's historical reluctance to confront ST, and that the early ETC's membership included a few 'ringers' for ST had something to do...
I agree that not wanting to compete with ST was a part of the equation. Assuming one doesn't hate either monorail or light rail you would actually have a...
Having lived in both areas, I would disagree that transit has underserved Ballard and West Seattle. I think Metro does a good job of serving these communities...
Once again you miss the point. The only true measure of the original ST accounting error is same year, corrected vs uncorrected data. Comparing different...
I made a guess that the study I referred to was the City of Seattle's "Intermediate Capacity Transit" study (from which I had seen a diagram of potential...
... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001892481_monorail01.ht ... The the rebuttals to this b*llsh*t in the "MercerIslandTimes" can be found at...
Two main reasons for choosing the Green Line corridor were its identification and study in the City's comprehensive transportation study at the time, and the...
There was no "reluctance" to confront ST, as many on this list have suggested in the past. There's a perfectly logical reason. ETC decision makers decided that...
once again you declare that the WMDs will be found but offer no evidence - since ST corrected their misappropriations according to you and other ST apologists...
Michael, I have to disagree with you here, but let me make clear, I'm talking about the pre-I-53 ETC, not the actually 'funded' ETC that came after the second...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/167694_sounder05.html 315 riders per day? That's pitiful for one bus line, let alone a huge rail system. I...
Hi everyone! It's my understanding that they will be discussing the Monorail Project on KUOW 94.9 FM's call-in show "The Conversation" today at 1pm. I can't...
In response to Kevin's Message 1 below, Sounder is not alone! See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3606431.stm "Eurotunnel ran into financial trouble...
I have a sneaking hunch that the Eurotunnel guys were closer than ST in comparing ST's projection of many more users than 315 per day? come on, that's...
Essentially we'd wind up with Falk's X, only served by multiple modes. Then the real issue is the connections...if you ran the Green Line to Northgate, that...
I know you guys are just loving this, but here's a little ridership reality check with regard to ST: 1) Only one train is running per day. 2) The current...
Not that I have heard. Everyone quotes the URS study years ago as being gospel that 69,000 riders will use the system. Since then SMP has gone to single track...
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