Starting Friday, January 26th Harborview’s taxi stand program will be up and running in Pioneer Square. Taxi stands, the thinking goes, make taxis more accessible (no calling, waiting, searching)—and so people can factor taxis into their plans instead of shrugging and drunk driving. Harborview opened a stand in Fremont last November in front of PCC Natural Markets on Evanston, just north of 34th street.

The Pioneer Square stands will operate Thursdays-Saturdays from 11:30 pm - 3:00 am.
They are at S. Washington St. at Occidental Park, across from Last Supper Club and
on the south side of S. King St. at Occidental, adjacent to Qwest Field parking.

A Harborview survey, based on answers from 300 21-34 year-olds living in Seattle who say they go out to drink, found that the most popular Seattle neighborhoods to go drinking, in order, are:

1) Capitol Hill (20%) 2) Fremont (18%) 3) Belltown (16%) 4) Downtown (13%) 5) Pioneer Square (12%) 6) U-District (8%) 7) Queen Anne (2%)

Some other tidbits from the study:

Nearly 20% said they’d driven within the past month, even though they knew they’d had too much to drink.

There were 8,210 DUI arrests in King County last year, with an average blood alcohol level of 0.14 (legal limit is 0.08).

43% of 21-34 year olds in Seattle drink 2-4 times per week; 10% (17% of males) drink 5 or more days per week.

44% in Seattle typically have more than 2 drinks when they drink alcohol; 34% of men usually have more than 4 drinks.

40% of men and 24% of women binge drink at least once a month.

54% of people this age in Seattle drank at a bar, restaurant or club the last time they were drinking with others. Only 24% were in their own home.

Alcohol-related crashes kill more people ages 21-34 than people of other ages.