A conversation with Seattle
What Gregoire, Sims, and Nickels could do was present everyone with a fait accompli: a construction megaproject in midstream, and the promise of gridlock if more funds aren’t made available. Specifically, says Metro chief Kevin Desmond “about 125 daily bus trips and 7,500 daily transit seats will be lost — while tunnel construction and viaduct demolition continues into 2016.” Continue reading Who Made King County Transit the Tunnel Fall Guy?
From South Dearborn to Denny Way, Seattle’s Third Avenue marks the spine of an area that could be papered over with the police reports used to track the crime within it. During the past year, it’s been the setting for more than 3,800 incidents, everything from shoplifting and narcotics use to car theft, robbery, and shootings. 33 times, someone threatened to kill someone else. Continue reading Seattle Plans Third Avenue Clean-Out Redux
King County’s Linda Thielke says, “Installation on all the individual buses (1,200+) is well underway now, but we estimate it will be late in 2012 when we have all the fleet outfitted with the new OnBoard Systems gear, including GPS.” By end of this summer, OneBusAway creator Brian Ferris will have set up Metro with the software necessary to provide that real-time information. Continue reading When Will OneBusAway Upgrade to On-Board GPS Data?