tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post7688462084771578814..comments2024-03-25T00:17:24.369-07:00Comments on Moving Ahead: 520 Bridge Final EIS and TransitTransportation Choiceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16934894362084310688noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post-74114009113346368392011-06-23T12:55:02.267-07:002011-06-23T12:55:02.267-07:00The Montlake area needs to redesigned to accommoda...The Montlake area needs to redesigned to accommodate a Montlake Flyer transit stop. This is an existing heavily used transit facility and it is required to permit efficient transit operation, especially evenings and weekends, permitting 520 bus routes to offer north-south connections at Montlake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post-25731569403524953902011-06-23T12:24:28.969-07:002011-06-23T12:24:28.969-07:00John Niles should shut up with his idiotic anti-ra...John Niles should shut up with his idiotic anti-rail trolling. East Link will run at the same headways as the rest of link -- not slow or infrequent. East Link will take over for the 550, one ST's biggest and most productive routes. While a BRT network could work in theory on the Eastside, the political will to build one does not exist -- witness the whining from Bellevue about "tunnel equity" and how "unfair" it is that Seattle gets a subway and the Eastside doesn't.<br /><br />Niles' brilliant idea is to cannibalize the future rapid transit networks of tomorrow in order to keep the crappy transit systems of today. It's remarkably stupid, even for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post-84291179716763926362011-06-22T11:36:21.438-07:002011-06-22T11:36:21.438-07:00Sound Transit has plenty of money for additional c...Sound Transit has plenty of money for additional cross-Lake transit if its billions were redirected from its inefficient, ineffective East Link light rail Lake crossing project. That slow, infrequent train would not add significantly to transit ridership according to the Draft Supplemental EIS for that project ... 5,000 additional two-way transit commuter per day is the bump, versus crossing volumes that total in the hundreds of thousands of cars. The cost-benefit numbers are so bad for I-90 light rail that it wouldn't qualify for Federal New Starts funding if Sound Transit bothered to apply. Even if the light rail and Sounder network were fully built out, Puget Sound Regional Council forecasts that bus ridership will exceed rail ridership by four to one in 2040. Right now, Sound Transit is sitting on one billion dollars in cash equivalents while it scratches its collection of planners' heads figuring out how to build all the suburban light rail it promised in the 2008 Prop 1 tax election, and while county bus agencies like Metro and Pierce Transit are on short rations actually trying to serve the bus commuters of today.jnileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08622331456545495103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post-9101103791468878272011-06-21T19:27:56.991-07:002011-06-21T19:27:56.991-07:00"It is concerning that there is still no clar...<i>"It is concerning that there is still no clarification where funding for the additional transit service will come. Given the current financial crisis of King County Metro and Sound Transit, increased funding for planned transit service is necessary, and if funding for this service cannot come from toll revenue, where will this increased funding come from in this time while transit agencies budgets are severely hurting?"</i><br /><br />The state should open the transit market to all alternatives, whether they are private corporations, or mom and pop part-timers. We might find there are willing investors with plenty of money.Evergreen Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609445136819906377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013268548511214057.post-73444902051692043022011-06-21T14:19:34.312-07:002011-06-21T14:19:34.312-07:00Eyman's curse is everywhere down here (Olympia...Eyman's curse is everywhere down here (Olympia/Centralia)<br /><br />Oh well, I guess we'll be in a similar situation as other states and their public transportation.Mr. Bradfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451329155749809960noreply@blogger.com