Comments on Glimpsed from the Car Window

I had this crazy dream last night that your plane would crash on the way to Vegas. Good thing it was a dream.

Take the bus, Gus.

Off to Vegas with Kelly O to mix it up with porn stars. Wish me luck.

I totally chose the wrong line of work.

that's nearly the same view you get from the #194--which will be 10 minutes faster than the light rail. too bad, coulda been a great thing.

We got a final price tag on that Sound Transit boondoggle yet?

Probably still a moving target, eh Cressona?

Hmm, 10 minutes slower, but I get to board at a rail station instead of a bus stop, and can skip the experience of lugging a suitcase on to a city bus.

Yep, light rail is gonna be great.

Ah, the AVN convention. Excellent.

Kelly, you'd better get some snaps of Sasha Grey.

So pretty, want more!

@6 - instead you'll get the experience of lugging your suitcase onto a light rail car?

Don't get me wrong - I'm thrilled we'll get light rail to the airport. And if the light rail comes more often than the 194, the 10 minutes extra on the trip will be a moot point. But the 194 is pretty great, too. I still can't believe I can get to or from the airport for a measly $1.25 (during non-peak hours, of course).

Dan, like most other light rail supporters , can't take the bus because it's just not white enough. He's also apparently to inconsiderate of a prick to use Shuttle Express and instead forces Terry to drive him to the airport, which gives him more time to whine about the lack of a light rail line.

OMG, envy!

ST's projected run time for Link light rail for the Airport to downtown trip is 34 minutes during rush hour (non-rush-hour times not available). The scheduled runtime of the Rt. 194 bus from the Airport to downtown is 29 minutes. But the bus schedule is dependent on a free-flowing freeway. One fender-bender and the schedule gets tossed out the window.

With its own rail right-of-way, the Link schedule will be much more reliable. Oh, and Link also serves several other Seattle neighborhoods, unlike the 194 bus. And, as has already been noted, the trains will run 2.4x more often than the bus -- 6 minutes headways in both directions during rush hours.

yeah, too bad you're too much of a snob to take the 194.

and don't offer the "no room for baggage!" excuse unless your trip was to last more than a week.

@ 5: I don't understand your question, and I'm not cressona, but all the information is at www.soundtransit.org and if you go there you can dig it out yourself.

What does Dan's man do for a living? Does he just mooch off Savage? Is he a stay at home mom? Anybody know?

#15 Do you not read SLOG, or Savage Love or any of Dan's books? Yes, Terry is a stay at home DAD. Anything wrong with that? Anyone who has to put up with washing Dan's Calvin Kleins and listening to original Broadway cast albums over and over, thoroughly earns his keep.

as to Dan going to CES porn show, why do I have the idea he is going to be trying to coerce Chi Chi LaRue into using more hairless twinks in her videos? (which won't work with Chi Chi; she was really the one who helped bring in the era of the scruffy, hairy, muscle stud back to porn. It was her preference in 1986 when I knew her in Minneapolis, and it's still obviously her preference today, thank god.)

I was born in 1986!

In Minneapolis! The hell, ms, why didn't you come say hi?

I've been to the CES porn convention. It was fun, but not capitol 'F' fun. The best part was getting to see Al Parker the year before he died, and Russ Meyer. (yeah, it was a looooong time ago.) Oh, and Jeff Stryker is really fucking short. And I went to some cheesy porn awards show and there were lots of low level Soprano-y guys there. And I was hoping to see some sexual naughtiness at the after parties, but porn stars are just like anyone else at a convention; all they talked about was money.

I saw the light rail bridge from the bus.

You really need to take the bus to appreciate it.

CES - much ado about nothing. God, so much hype, so little real stuff.

wow, that's so strange Mr Poe....I did live in the Twins Cities in the mid 80's and while living there I had my only sexual relationship with a woman...let me think...her name was, Jane, Jane...Poe....I haven't seen her since late 85....wait a minute...

oh, dear god! The bitch told me she was on the Pill!!

SON!!!!

Father! Do me!

Yea on the train to the airport. No more shuttle or taxi rip-offs. Now if we could just do something about airports. God, I hate 'em.

And how about that airport shuttle, eh? $30 and you still have to wait for one at the airport if you live somewhere other than downtown (when I lived in West Sea years ago, I actually waited an hour-and-forty -five minutes in the cold for a shuttle - I was young and stupid). And then when it finally picks your ass up and you want to hurry and get home after an endless flight and endless wait, they drop off 5 other people before you.

Now I just bite it and pay the extra five to hire a cab. I guess you could say I love to travel, but I hate traveling.

Have fun, D.

Sorry Michaell Strangeways! I promise to be more attentive in the future!

It wouldn't be the same Terry that posts to LineOut, would it?

oh, young Master Poe, gay father/son incest porn is hot, (see the films of Joe Gage)...actual incest is just nasty...

do you need your subscription to "Handjobs" renewed?

yes, Terry does post on here.

10 minutes faster if there isn't traffic boyo.

194 has a bumpy ass ride, questionable departure/arrival times, and is often confused with the 174...

the 194 isn't bad but if we actually want people who are either traveling to/from the airport or staying at the hotels at seatac to use mass transit, we need a bright, shiny light rail station that will obviously whisk them away to seattle. not ambiguous bus numbers that they will never bother to research. just one of the many joys that comes with a beautiful, comfortable, grade seperated rail system.

and for the love of god never mistake the 174 for the 194. i'll never do THAT again.

Porn is boring is never fulfilling in the least. I just like to stick to my daddies.

I just thought of another, more recent airport horror story. I was at Bob Hope Airport down in Burbank catching a flight home after the holidays. Ran into a Tully's for a triple tall soy latte which is about $3.75 - $4.00 here in Seattle. The bitch was $7! Almost hauled off and slapped the cashier until I realised the poor dear makes maybe 65 cents an hour and doesn't set prices for lattes. Sea-Tac doesn't shake you down quite like that. Why would Bob Hope?

genevieve @9, hell yes, I'd rather pull my luggage on to a rail car.  For starters, it's a flat path from the platform to the seat, no stairs.  And it's hard for me to imagine a rail car as cramped as a bus interior.

Stinkbug @13, I hold a bus pass and ride regularly.  The only snobbery here I think is yours.

Perfect Voter @ 12

ST's projected run time for Link light rail for the Airport to downtown trip is 34 minutes during rush hour (non-rush-hour times not available). The scheduled runtime of the Rt. 194 bus from the Airport to downtown is 29 minutes. But the bus schedule is dependent on a free-flowing freeway. One fender-bender and the schedule gets tossed out the window.

Yeah, and when some idiot runs a red light on MLK south, where Link runs at grade, and gets clobbered by a train how much is it going to fuck things up? Probably quite a bit, especially if there's a fatality. For some reason Sound Transit supporters never talk about that possibility.

Sound Transit's rail systems are a joke. They're hideously expensive, late, over budget and failing to deliver on their original ridership projections. None of this matters though because rail is basically nothing more than faith based transit. Reality doesn't matter to rail supporters any more than it does to supporters of the war in Iraq.

My partner's best friend Lorraine and her stripper wife are going to vegas for that. They were originally going to take him but backed out in the end, pity as it sounds like great fun.

@32

If that is the price we have to pay to get some rid of some of the idiot drivers on the roads, so be it. I'm for no speed limits, no insurance and a general "road warrior" mentality on the roads. let all the people who can't handle it ride the bus/train.

Two man enter, one man leave, bitches.

Great picture.

What better proof that we should thank God we killed off that monorail with its terribly ugly concrete structures overhead.

Destroying the local environment. Dripping grease -- passengers falling off -- the noise it would have generated -- ugggh.

Thank God we killed that elevated monster!! The whole notion of elevated rail was so silly. Whew! Close call!

#16 Has Dan's preference for briefs been confirmed? He always struck me as being a boxer type of guy.

Atlanta's MARTA trains arrived at their airport some 10+ years after rail sevice started. Big Mistake. System traffic rose sharply with airport service, especially from professional, non-public transit "demographics" i. e. WASPS and business types. Atlanta mass transit would be much more accepted had airport access been available from the start, instead of the initial & inconvenient bus & rail connection.

Most major cities world-wide have rail service to/from their airports. SeaTac has been way behind the curve. (Ironically, Seattle was slated to get the major transit funding Atlanta subsequently got for MARTA, when we failed to get our act together in '76. Just imagine the transit system we'd have after 31 years!)

Calvin Klein makes boxers, too...

Dan seems like a banana hammock kind of guy...

by I do know, that at least three or four years ago, Calvin Klein WAS his brand of choice...

Um, I confused - did you take that photo AFTER you arrived in Vegas? Isn't that a shot of the Vegas Monorail?

say hi to matt fuckin hickey for me

32 - Faith based transit, eh? Obviously, since we've never seen rail work anywhere else ever, especially not a line that connects an airport with a downtown core.

It must be the Vegas monorail. There's no train running.

#31 - JFK a few months ago: $6 bottle of water. I was almost happy to pay it so I could tell everyone about my freaky $6 bottle of water, but really, I was just really thirsty and leaving on Jet Blue and had no other choice.

#28 Cale - are we letting you vote on 50 year transit systems when you don't know the difference between the 174 and the 194?

Chicago just got service to the airport a few years ago.

NY just built an elevated third rail system to JFK.

Berlin's Tegel has bus service no rail.

To name a few obscure cities that didn't have or have rail to airport for most of their transit lives.

The station at the airport here will be 1000' from ticket counters. That's four blocks.

Dan's post shows that the best off amoung us will be enabled in using huge amounts of GHGs by flying but WTF. I would rather subsidize automobiles than air travel.

#12

ST's projected run time for Link light rail for the Airport to downtown trip is 34 minutes during rush hour (non-rush-hour times not available).

From ST LINK (will) - Offer a 36-minute ride from the airport to Downtown Seattle – every time regardless of the weather or highway traffic.

Bauhaus how is the rail to SeaTac going to help people in West Seattle? Isn't there some ST bus to WS or didn't they get anything from ST?