All-volunteer advocacy organization. We are fighting for fast, reliable, grade-separated transit expansion in Seattle/Puget Sound. @SeattleSubway.bsky.social
Jul 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
There are already enough @SoundTransit stations that require TOD to make sense. Chinatown/ID needs a station where people and regional connections already are, which everyone knows is 4th.
The Seattle Times presents a lot of the self conflicting narrative in the article 1/?
So, a connected developer (and Harrell campaign donor) was actively lobbying for the station to be sited on a property they are desperate to unload and @MayorofSeattle had no idea?
Does anyone actually buy that?
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Mar 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Metro Center was an original station in the DC Metro and yet it enabled a direct platform to platform transfer to a later line.
This is the power of having a plan rather than going measure by measure like what we’re doing in Seattle.
Seattle/@seattledot has never completed a citywide Link plan and @SoundTransit has never seen that as a priority.
In case you’re wondering why pretty much every transfer will be awkward, monumentally expensive, and/or very difficult at the community level.
We failed to plan.
Mar 3, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
We have a lot to say about this. As huge fans of transit expansion we want @SoundTransit to succeed, but their performance - since ST3 passed in particular - has made it difficult for us to sing their praises.
The outside consultants focused on political and management problems (we’ll get to that) but glossed over a huge best practices red flag.
Use of consultants, and particularly consultants managing consultants.
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Mar 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Automated enforcement needs to be spread out across the city and should include a wider range of infractions (red light, speeding, bus lane violation, etc.) Lege work is needed on some of that.
Traffic violence is a serious public safety hazard and needs to be treated as such.
Traffic violence tends to hit lower income communities harder. A lot of people with lower incomes live adjacent to our our most dangerous streets like Aurora and Rainier. We need more than enforcement, we need to make those streets safer for people too.
Oct 2, 2021 • 17 tweets • 13 min read
Thread: exploring @SoundTransit’s three new light rail stations as part of the 4.3-mile #NorthgateLink light rail extension, which will add 40,000-50,000 additional daily riders post-COVID, at a cost of $1.9B. The project arrived $50m under budget.
The most stunning thing about this station is @SoundTransit’s public art program and the installation of “Fragment Brooklyn” which evokes urban living through windows and other artifacts, infused with video-art bringing it to life.
