Another perfect example of why Seattle seldom gets anything decided in less than 10 years.

Likes to think of itself as progressive.

Stories based in science? I can dig.

I don’t mind paying for every ride. Since I sold my car, Transit has saved me over 50 thousand dollars on gasoline alone, not to mention insurance, tabs, tires and other maintenance.

Somebody’s got to pay for it, and as with roads, that means the people who drive on them. Health care should be free.

Trying to get a lot of stuff rushed into action before the fall electrion replaces the Mayor and several of these dorks.

People who get used to lazy-driving I-5 alla time tend to not have worked out how to do N-S travel off-the-beaten-path. (I’m not giving away the secret routes.) East-West driving is harder, especially if you have to cross the lazy-line.

Despite the 15-minute waits, the bus system is okay unless your journey is a long one. (From what I’ve read, though, in many large cities they expect 5-to-10-minute waits, then get pissed.) If you’re near a RapidRide that goes where you going, it’s not bad … otherwise, a several mile trip is an hour to 1.5 hours -each way- , with -at least- one transfer (each of which may take up to an added 15 minutes).

Again, N-S on light rail is pretty damned swift … IF you don’t need an E-W bus at either end. OF COURSE the rail - like Aurora - is RIGHT NEXT to the freeway.

It’s really great how carefully WA takes care of tenants … landlords -having- to provide Tenant Union lit is amazing …

Mount Baker ‘a planned community’ … there was at least one more of those, on the East side, now called ‘Windermere’. It’s not as exclusive as it once was. (Laws and all.)

Today its website says: “By joining the Windermere Corporation, [sic] you will have exclusive access to our Windermere Park & Beach Club, security patrol line, home check requests, party permits, tennis court reservation and much more.” IIRC the website once even mentioned the price of these, erm, accomodations. - https://www.windermereneighborhoodseattle.org/

And, of course, it’s still next to ‘Laurelhurst’. The names of these places are often, erm, highly literate. Nearby you’ll find Ivanhoe Place, Hawthorne Hills, and Ravenna. ‘Mount Baker’ is not quite so tell-tale, although it’s of course among what realtors would call ‘Seattle’s best neighborhoods’ … "https://seattlemag.com/seattles-best-neighborhoods-mount-baker/

Tis true. I visit the Metro Trip Planner often, and there are a lot of places that can take forever to get to … unless you’re in ‘the middle’.

If it doesn’t give stupid advice like, you have to walk over to the other side of the ship canal to catch a bus, then do 3 transfers. Or go even farther away yet to catch a light rail.

That’s an very thorough list! Needs breaking up into neighborhoods and/or bus routes … for people without a car …

The article give NO (zero, zip, nada, bupkis) reasons to vote one way or another.

“her concrete ideas, her doable plans to address these” … What are they? Where could we find out? Seattle likes to elect a mayor, fault them for whatever s/he doesn’t do, and then elect another… over and over and over. And so we keep getting whatever who’s really running the show wants. Pfah.

It would take big changes in the legislature to pass that. My guess is that there will be changes that’d make it harder.

Don’t see this coming to pass in WA. too trumpadelic

Yesterday’s Times story …

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/judge-orders-an-end-to-nudity-at-seattles-denny-blaine-park-for-now/

Here’s the State’s Dept. of Licensing ‘Data transparency’ info page: https://dol.wa.gov/about/privacy-center/data-transparency

Katie needs to be getting her thing going then. I’ve heard the name but not seeing or hearing the name much at all. (Gotta do better than the head of the Green Party.)

Seattle seems to like electing weak mayors that come and go at the whim of whatever old money’s really been running the show. Wow, imagine if they had a real goer and doer picked by the people running the show.

What kind of TACO has to hide behind a mask anyways?

Seattle was a coffeehouse town before Nestle (and its evil ways) was even born.

Hell, the first coffee shop was WAY before 1957’s opening of ‘The Place Next Door’.

(Don’t) hope they’re ready to get stomped on. Oh, and Seattle’s Best might have something to say about it.

EXCELLENT news. There was a gang pimping for that at the UWDistrict fair this spring. Was noticing that happening W. of CapHill the other day.

Only the grains that are knocked out of the box don’t get played any more.