# While the ability to run trains across the floating bridge continues to be a major impediment to getting the full 2 Line running, other issues along the existing 1 Line could pose even greater challenges to maintaining consistent service.
Honestly this just sounds like complaining. Yes, people didn’t predict trains when they made the downtown stations. Yes, crossovers would be good. Guess where has great transit and no crossovers? NYC. Yep. You sometimes have to cross the street to go the other way.
I’m confused. Why do you mention crossing the street? The article points at a choke point. The crossover would allow trains to bypass a train that is otherwise stuck at a station. Otherwise, it takes one train to hold up an entire direction. It’s not about going the other way- it’s about maintaining service in one of the directions
You sound like my wife, which is absolutely a compliment. She was an optimist, I’m a pessimist. Grew up in Seattle with only buses, so I love having Link and want it to be reliable, but it suffers a lot of unscheduled “please stand by” disruptions already, and when a second line is running on the same tracks, I’m … skeptical.
I guess I am on the optimistic side of things. I just see the delays as “growing pains” of a rapidly growing transit network.
As the other guy said, there IS something wrong with the Seattle people here. Could be the leaded fuel from the sea planes, could be the weather, could be all the hippie boomers that moved here in the 80s/90s. (As someone born here as well)
All I know is, hope is what keeps people moving, and me moving, even when facing a fiery infeno like in Toy Story 3.
I have long said that WA is where capital projects go to die. There’s something wrong with the people here and they really have trouble making public services work at a level that is expected in many other states. That said, at least we’re not Idaho.
Honestly this just sounds like complaining. Yes, people didn’t predict trains when they made the downtown stations. Yes, crossovers would be good. Guess where has great transit and no crossovers? NYC. Yep. You sometimes have to cross the street to go the other way.
I’m confused. Why do you mention crossing the street? The article points at a choke point. The crossover would allow trains to bypass a train that is otherwise stuck at a station. Otherwise, it takes one train to hold up an entire direction. It’s not about going the other way- it’s about maintaining service in one of the directions
You corrected me–I misunderstood what was crossing over. I.E. trains vs people.
You sound like my wife, which is absolutely a compliment. She was an optimist, I’m a pessimist. Grew up in Seattle with only buses, so I love having Link and want it to be reliable, but it suffers a lot of unscheduled “please stand by” disruptions already, and when a second line is running on the same tracks, I’m … skeptical.
I guess I am on the optimistic side of things. I just see the delays as “growing pains” of a rapidly growing transit network.
As the other guy said, there IS something wrong with the Seattle people here. Could be the leaded fuel from the sea planes, could be the weather, could be all the hippie boomers that moved here in the 80s/90s. (As someone born here as well)
All I know is, hope is what keeps people moving, and me moving, even when facing a fiery infeno like in Toy Story 3.
I have long said that WA is where capital projects go to die. There’s something wrong with the people here and they really have trouble making public services work at a level that is expected in many other states. That said, at least we’re not Idaho.
Did I just do another “your wife”?