http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/06/03/lickt-rail-is-fucking-great Comments On: Light Rail Is Fucking Great by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Now gd'nite...
Posted by rIVERrAT]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:25:07 -0700 The Stranger Level boarding beats the bus - you can roll your suitcase onto Link instead of hauling it up the bus steps, and best of all, LINK is air conditioned!
Accident on I-5, no problem, you'll get to view it from LINK.
Posted by terlap]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:11:43 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Allyn]]> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:17:20 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Stupid White Man]]> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:07:59 -0700 The Stranger
While LINK has passing tracks in various places, most of its length is just two tracks, making it very difficult if not impossible to run all-night service.
Posted by CDJohn]]> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:01:18 -0700 The Stranger
Yeah. Cleaning up guts on the freeway is easier.
Posted by JesseJB]]> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:47:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Greg]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:08:36 -0700 The Stranger
If they can do it in Cleveland, they ought to be able to do it here.

At least in Boston, I always thought the "maintenance" idea was just a cover for them not wanting different socio-economic groups moving easily between different parts of the city late at night.


Posted by j-lon]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:15 -0700 The Stranger
Secondly, the art Jonah can't seem to start talking about looks like Prince William's testicles descending into the crown. Or maybe the Queen's.
Posted by Dave Coffman]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:23:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:13:58 -0700 The Stranger
@46 SODO Station has a ton of cora bike racks. Maybe six or eight of them. You are definitely supposed to take your bikes to the station and leave them there, this increases the area that each station can serve.

http://www.soundtransit.org/documents/pd…
Posted by btm]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:02:23 -0700 The Stranger Posted by codswallower]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:19:38 -0700 The Stranger
Posted by kashmiri.apple]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:33:38 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Lisa]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:30:35 -0700 The Stranger
The Hamburg, Germany U-bahn (subways) run through the night on Friday & Saturday nights. They started this (every 20/30-min) service two or three years ago, and it is VERY well-used. So much better than the night buses I used to have to take.

In the daytime it is rare to wait more than 3 minutes....
Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:06:51 -0700 The Stranger
ST estimated it will be about 3-5 minutes (depending on age I suppose?) to walk from the train to the "middle of the terminal"

@58 - Your correct! There was at one time a proposal for a streetcar that would run from Burien Transit Center to Tukwila Sounder Station. It must've died though as there hasn't been anything said about it in ages.
Posted by Brian Bundridge]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:45:00 -0700 The Stranger
There are two stretches where tunnels are used on the line. A short tunnel parallel to Hiawatha Avenue travels under Minnehaha Parkway just north of the 50th Street station. At the airport, twin tunnels (one each for the northbound and southbound trains) go underground for 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to reach the Lindbergh Terminal station, the only stop that is totally underground—70 feet (20 m) below the surface. Trains return to the surface as they near Humphrey Terminal. Some of the sections under the airport required the use of a tunnel boring machine.
Posted by abc]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:47:53 -0700 The Stranger
Wrong. Tukwila DESPERATELY wanted light rail to reach the Mall. In fact, Tukwila city council delayed light rail and wouldn't approve of the plans until ST agreed to have the train go to Southcenter.

But the $300m extra cost and the extra 7 minutes it'd take to get the mall didn't fare well with ST or any other non-Tukwila politicians. So Tukwila Intl BLVD station was a "compromise."

So no hatin' on Tukwila for a sucky station. It's not their fault. They're now demanding that Southcenter somehow be connected with a future link line.
Posted by JOJO]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:26:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Baconcat]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:56:51 -0700 The Stranger
I think we've all been calling it Link and/or Light Rail for a while. I've been calling it Link, so I figured we were just going to call it Link.
Posted by Gomez]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:53:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by bcrefugee]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:51:36 -0700 The Stranger
Lots of people are going to be confused (at least initially) by the fare aspect. Especially in the tunnel and transferring to/from buses.
Posted by stinkbug]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:10:45 -0700 The Stranger
The line's cost is expected to total $715 million, with $424 million coming from the federal government.
Posted by abc]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:04:24 -0700 The Stranger
Yeah CM'ers, why not cork the track? That would be aaaaaawe-some!
Posted by wisepunk]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:39:42 -0700 The Stranger
I was at an open house on southeast beacon hill a couple weeks ago and could hear the trains on MLK. They were louder than the normal traffic but maybe because it was a Sunday. Also, being above the tracks might have contributed.
Posted by Debra]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:50:15 -0700 The Stranger