To give more history about this route, there is a annual “race the 8!” event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it. Folks have beat it juggling, waling backwards, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.
It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.
I agree with everything you say until the end. It’s disingenuous to say that residents do not take the highway. It runs through the middle of the city! We all take the damn highway.
Traffic? The worst intersections I’ve seen in the country? The fact that when you get there parking for an hour often costs more than a day pass for the train and bus?
Easy solution: just drive toward Denny & Stewart then get out of your car. By the time you’re back from whatever you were doing there you may be able to move forward a bit. Free parking!
Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she… Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don’t get how these people think that’s such a bad thing.
Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people “that haven’t worked hard enough for it.” They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that “its for the poors.”
They tried their damnedest, but somehow they still make the mayor sound based as hell.
In one line I got:
She’s comparable to current rockstar mayor
She fixed bus service
She hersekf uses bus service
She noticed a problem and fixed it
To give more history about this route, there is a annual “race the 8!” event scheduled by seattle urbanists where people start off on its route and do increasingly outlandish activities on foot while still beating it. Folks have beat it juggling, waling backwards, etc. Katie and her kids participated before she was the mayor, and you guessed it, beat it.
It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.
I agree with everything you say until the end. It’s disingenuous to say that residents do not take the highway. It runs through the middle of the city! We all take the damn highway.
Ehh, way more residents take or would take that bus then would use that on ramp. Its mainly an ingress point to the freeway for people who commute.
The ramp isnt even closing, its just being sanely re-routed to not cause such a clusterfuck.
Definitely couldn’t before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.
Right, good article, she could couldn’t then but can now, yet she chooses not to in order to help the lives of regular people
Impeach her right now! The job of government officials is to enrich themselves at everybody else’s expense! Heresy!
If you’ve been to downtown Seattle you know why people don’t drive there.
Traffic? The worst intersections I’ve seen in the country? The fact that when you get there parking for an hour often costs more than a day pass for the train and bus?
Easy solution: just drive toward Denny & Stewart then get out of your car. By the time you’re back from whatever you were doing there you may be able to move forward a bit. Free parking!
I’m pretty sure that’s how people use the I5 in Seattle.
There is no “the I-5” north of California.
I don’t know why you’d think that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5
The Daily Heil is super reliable, let’s put it like that.
Right? Like the worst thing they could say is that she… Fixed the public bus system so it actually functions on time instead of being inconsistent? Like, I don’t get how these people think that’s such a bad thing.
Cause they had an extra lane for their private vehicle and they feel like a service their taxes paid for has been robbed from them to serve people “that haven’t worked hard enough for it.” They worked hard to buy and pay for their car and they feel upset if their ability to use their private vehicle on public infrastructure has been diminished. Despite the fact that cars have been given the vast majority of space and funding for decades. There is also nothing stopping them from using the improved bus service except their preconception that “its for the poors.”
Oh I know their logic. I just don’t get their logic cause it’s fucking dumb.