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Friday, March 5, 2010

City Neighborhood Blog Weekly Roundup

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:43 PM

Posted by news intern Sarah Anne Lloyd.

In Transit: Capitol Hill Seattle has the skinny on Metro routes 8 and 43's skipped bus stops.

Want Chickens? Also from CHS—there will be a chicken coop building party this weekend.

How About a Garden? The Queen Anne View says that there will be a Friends of Gilman Gardens planning meeting tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the proposed future gardening spot—Gilman Drive West and 13th Avenue West.

Money! Two Garfield High School teachers have won a $10,000 Qwest grant for an exhibit on the history of the Central Area, the Central District News reports.

In Vacant Lots: The Central District News also has information on plans to build a mixed-use development on the vacant lot at MLK and Union.

Guilt Trip: The New Pioneer Square has a First Thursday summary, for those of us who couldn't make it.

Boy Oh Boy! My Ballard reports on the opening of the city's largest Value Village.

These Trails are Made for Walkin': Feet First, the National Park Service and the Department of Neighborhoods have released a map of foot trails in the Northeast area.

Useful: The Beacon Hill Blog reports on upcoming activities at El Centro de la Raza, including free tax preparation services for low-income taxpayers and conversational Spanish classes.

Awwwww, Happy Endings: Adorable tiny dog safely recovered in West Seattle.

Speaking of Adorable Things in West Seattle: The West Seattle Blog also posted about 4th-grader Connor Wartelle, who recently released an album. Over half the songs on the album are about Abraham Lincoln. This one is called "Civil War" and is supposed to "um, get you cheering like wild":

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Between the dumbassery along the #8 and 43 routes and the crap I've had to take from ORCA lately, I'm just about ready to give up on transit in this town.

Posted by keshmeshi on March 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM

oohhh, is this column new?
me likey

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on March 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM

Poor Wesley Willis. "Surely", he thought, "I will be immune to the history of white people ripping off black people."

Nope. Not even you, my late hero.

Posted by Dave M on March 5, 2010 at 5:29 PM

Thanks for this column. I hope it continues.

The El Centro story at the Beacon Hill Blog is more than a week old. Wish you would have linked to a newer one, but maybe the next column will do it. Actually, I would love to see a daily localblog recap.

Posted by litlnemo

on March 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM

Yeah, I didn't realize it was the City that closed those stops - that's uber-assinine! That means that, eastbound, there are no stops between the one across from the Starbucks on Olive and the one that's 3 blocks east of Broadway. It's a pain in the ass for ME, I can't imagine what it's like for an older person or someone who has trouble getting around!

Call the city! This madness must be stopped!!

Posted by merry on March 5, 2010 at 5:59 PM

If they're closing stops to "improve reliability", why don't they close them all? Imagine how fast the buses would run if they never stopped for anyone. Take the back door off and make people run and jump for it!

Posted by Fnarf

on March 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM

for a moment there, i thought that kid was DJ Pierce.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on March 5, 2010 at 6:48 PM

A lot of my friends have been severely impacted by the WSDOT closures on I-5 ramps and the #8 and #43 bus routes.

It's like they WANT people to go back to driving in cars all by their lonesome.

Fnarf for the lack of understanding about who is using the back exit EPIC FAIL. He should move to Pioneer Square so he can understand why insurance costs there are so high.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM

by the way, if you're pissed at the bus stop closures, the only people who can change that are your ELECTED county (not city) councilmembers.

Send them an email from your non-Seattle workplace if you want action, cause they don't care what Seattle wants, they just regard us as a place that subsidizes their inefficient suburbs.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 5, 2010 at 7:23 PM

I haven't seen this column before either. I like it. Please keep doing it!

Posted by onion on March 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM

uh, how about some love for Seattle Gay Scene?

Posted by michael strangeways

on March 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM

the olive ramp closure has really been inconvenient - but the bus zone closures aren't such a big deal. an extra 5 minutes walk to broadway from from 11th... from boylston - an extra 3 minutes walk down to summit to the bus zone.

Posted by Skeets on March 5, 2010 at 10:20 PM

A decent transit-planning rule of thumb: when your routes run ultra-frequently and reliably, a 3-block walk to transfer between lines is not such a big deal.

When your routes run 1/2-hourly or less, and somebody sprinting from one slow/infrequent bus to another misses it because you've done something immeasurably asinine (leaving him or her stuck another 30 minutes), then you really fucking suck.

(Seriously... if one stop is going to be closed because it's redundant, and the other stop closes for construction, then the first stop isn't fucking redundant anymore. Are you REQUIRED to have an IQ less than 80 to work at Metor?)

Posted by d.p. on March 6, 2010 at 12:16 AM