I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing that they have a budget shortfall so this is their clever plan to hide behind the "reduce congestion and greenhouse gasses" stuff and rake in the money.
I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing that they have a budget shortfall so this is their clever plan to hide behind the "reduce congestion and greenhouse gasses" stuff and rake in the money.
Would be nice if Port orchard did the same. Traffic was awful there 25 years ago and isn't any better now. They should put a toll on the new Tremont road work.
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I remember reading some of the accounts of I-5 being built through downtown Seattle. Restaurants, businesses and homes that had been there for decades were razed to make way for the cement asphalt mixers. @RaceBannon might be able to describe what that time was like since he lived through it.
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I remember reading some of the accounts of I-5 being built through downtown Seattle. Restaurants, businesses and homes that had been there for decades were razed to make way for the cement asphalt mixers. @RaceBannon might be able to describe what that time was like since he lived through it.
And after destroying so much to build it, they still fucked it up. That, in a nutshell, is how government works.
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I remember reading some of the accounts of I-5 being built through downtown Seattle. Restaurants, businesses and homes that had been there for decades were razed to make way for the cement asphalt mixers. @RaceBannon might be able to describe what that time was like since he lived through it.
And after destroying so much to build it, they still fucked it up. That, in a nutshell, is how government works.
Fuck all governments. They are the worst of necessary evils.
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I remember reading some of the accounts of I-5 being built through downtown Seattle. Restaurants, businesses and homes that had been there for decades were razed to make way for the cement asphalt mixers. @RaceBannon might be able to describe what that time was like since he lived through it.
That and they built a convention center over the freeway, essentially making it where you can't expand and right there it's basically 2 Lanes each way.
The head of Washington State Transportation in the 60's when the 5 was completed was a regular at our house at the parent's bridge club. The state wanted to put the 5 through Yelm and avoid the bottle neck with a spur to Tacoma and Seattle. Downtown merchants put an end to it. The two lanes downtown was by design to encourage people to drive through town and spend money
We were transitioning from the 99 that went through every town to these new freeway things and every town freaked out about it
Design a city to create congestion, then tax the congestion you created.
Beatutiful.
All of Seattle’s traffic problems trace back to shitty highway design in the 60’s. All the I-5 entrances are poorly designed funnels, and so many of them lead to entering the highway on the left when you need to merge 4-5 lanes to the right within a half mile to exit. Nothing that can be changed about that now.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
It's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I remember reading some of the accounts of I-5 being built through downtown Seattle. Restaurants, businesses and homes that had been there for decades were razed to make way for the cement asphalt mixers. @RaceBannon might be able to describe what that time was like since he lived through it.
That and they built a convention center over the freeway, essentially making it where you can't expand and right there it's basically 2 Lanes each way.
Turns out it’s a great urban camping site for those who don’t have the ability to camp elsewhere.
The head of Washington State Transportation in the 60's when the 5 was completed was a regular at our house at the parent's bridge club. The state wanted to put the 5 through Yelm and avoid the bottle neck with a spur to Tacoma and Seattle. Downtown merchants put an end to it. The two lanes downtown was by design to encourage people to drive through town and spend money
We were transitioning from the 99 that went through every town to these new freeway things and every town freaked out about it
Same thing more recently up in Sequim. All the pro business nutcases said the bypass would kill the downtown. But reality is, downtown is better than ever and there's been a shit ton of jobs added from new businesses and expansion of existing business there.
Too many people think about route 66 and forget it went through shitholes like Oklahoma and the middle of nowhere in New Mexico and Arizona.
The head of Washington State Transportation in the 60's when the 5 was completed was a regular at our house at the parent's bridge club. The state wanted to put the 5 through Yelm and avoid the bottle neck with a spur to Tacoma and Seattle. Downtown merchants put an end to it. The two lanes downtown was by design to encourage people to drive through town and spend money
We were transitioning from the 99 that went through every town to these new freeway things and every town freaked out about it
Same thing more recently up in Sequim. All the pro business nutcases said the bypass would kill the downtown. But reality is, downtown is better than ever and there's been a shit ton of jobs added from new businesses and expansion of existing business there.
Too many people think about route 66 and forget it went through shitholes like Oklahoma and the middle of nowhere in New Mexico and Arizona.
It's funny that it was never the modern freeway that these brick and mortals should have been worried about. They should have been worried about the technological freeway that spawned Amazon.
I've never understood this. When I was a kid (late 80s/early 90s), the population hovered around 500,000. Now with Amazon tech dorks, other tech dorks, and medical research companies, it's around 660,000 and that's conservative. Other than a train to the airport and now UW, there's no new infrastructure that actually helps. Everyone will bike (weather is shit or at best questionable9-10 months per year) or take a metro bus like magic. No, they won't. Now they're taking away I 90 lanes for trains. Genius.
I've never understood this. When I was a kid (late 80s/early 90s), the population hovered around 500,000. Now with Amazon tech dorks, other tech dorks, and medical research companies, it's around 660,000 and that's conservative. Other than a train to the airport and now UW, there's no new infrastructure that actually helps. Everyone will bike (weather is shit or at best questionable9-10 months per year) or take a metro bus like magic. No, they won't. Now they're taking away I 90 lanes for trains. Genius.
I've never understood this. When I was a kid (late 80s/early 90s), the population hovered around 500,000. Now with Amazon tech dorks, other tech dorks, and medical research companies, it's around 660,000 and that's conservative. Other than a train to the airport and now UW, there's no new infrastructure that actually helps. Everyone will bike (weather is shit or at best questionable9-10 months per year) or take a metro bus like magic. No, they won't. Now they're taking away I 90 lanes for trains. Genius.
But How is Seattle a shit City to live in?
No one wants to live in Seattle. It’s too crowded and expensive.
I've never understood this. When I was a kid (late 80s/early 90s), the population hovered around 500,000. Now with Amazon tech dorks, other tech dorks, and medical research companies, it's around 660,000 and that's conservative. Other than a train to the airport and now UW, there's no new infrastructure that actually helps. Everyone will bike (weather is shit or at best questionable9-10 months per year) or take a metro bus like magic. No, they won't. Now they're taking away I 90 lanes for trains. Genius.
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Beatutiful.
So their “solutions” are revenue driving taxes and mass transit systems that are being built at a snails pace.
We were transitioning from the 99 that went through every town to these new freeway things and every town freaked out about it
Too many people think about route 66 and forget it went through shitholes like Oklahoma and the middle of nowhere in New Mexico and Arizona.
Buses became a symbol of the ghetto folk for too long to change.
#CoogEcon