Seattle could accommodate a million people, or five more headquarters like that, but it refuses to change the zoning to allow it or its employees to live in the city.
We’ve just been through an extraordinary growth spurt that’s slowing down, and there’s unlikely to be another company headquarters the size of Amazon (although it’s possible). You’d need 2 1/2 times that to reach 10 million. It took two decades to grow from 3 millio to 5 million. “By the time the region’s population doubles, North Bend and Monroe are going to be semi-urban.” North Bend commuters aren’t going to use anything if it takes them an additional hour to get where they want once they arrive at the end of their suburban line. This is why lines such as the Ballard-UW are important: it doesn’t just improve the urban traveler commute but also the commute for anyone from further out trying to get to where they need to go once in the core. Shoving those commuters onto the 44 means those few miles between Ballard and the UW take over an hour.
North Bend is too oriented around highways and too far from the next logical urban center (Spokane) for anything like that to work, even if it were on a good east-west main line.įurthermore, how are those commuters from North Bend to get around once they get to Seattle? Adobe and Google are both in Fremont. Somewhere like Centralia might work if they increased the zoning near the station and more frequent and faster Amtrak service. The only way places as remote as North Bend work is 1) there has to be a lot of stuff within easy and fast access of the station and 2) it has to be an intermediate point between population centers. The bullet trains work because of the high density of housing and employment near the stations. Instead we build today to make the line of yesterday. That’s what we need to be thinking about today to make the line of tomorrow. By the time the region’s population doubles, North Bend and Monroe are going to be semi-urban. Let’s think forward to the future, not concern ourselves with the regional borders of the present. A 3.4 mile line? A waste of time, space, and money. Like Japanese bullet trains.īallard -> UW is the opposite of what I want to see in transit. I’d even cut the number of current stops in half. To me, ST needs to be more BART than BART. Not since my first experience with it in London back in the 90s, and not since. I’ve never been a fan of urban focused light rail. I am all about getting light rail out past the suburbs and into the rural country. I use distance per dollar as my benchmark. RossB, I don’t use ridership per dollar spent as my benchmark for a successful ST project. Lowers rider subsidies for this line with greater travel miles per trip and more riders per trip. Leverages existing infrastructure from West Seattle Link. Kirkland 90,000 (Northern Bellevue-Redmond area more than doubles this number) Makes for an efficient lineĮspecially when ridership miles is also considered.Ĭan utilize new 522 BRT stations as Link stations (I don’t see this Link line occurring until after 2040 by which time BRT will have served its’ usefulness).Ī 1 seat ride for Kirkland and Ballard to UW.īy doing Ballard to Kirkland it will lower overhead and rider subsidies and compensate for a dinky Ballard-UW lineĪlso would offer Link stops to major King County destinations: Here the addition of only 1 line adds two major destinations (UW and DT Seattle). Gray lines being ST3 and yellow Kirkland Transit CorridorĪ 1 seat ride to downtown Seattle from Bothell, Kenmore, Lake City Way, Wallingford and Fremont with a 2 seater to UW Lawyers are currently working on all disclaimers. The exception to this is train stations, where dynamiting one part of a train station will remove all of them (or not, if there are trains in any of them).ĭo check out the wiki because this is explained much better there.My first draft of an ST4 work in progress. You can remove a component of a combined station using the dynamite tool which will remove just that individual station, not the overall thing. You can only have one dock and/or airport in any given station at a time, unlike road vehicle and train stations. There’s a limit for the maximum area a combined station can cover. Instead, you should Ctrl + left click while placing a station and you'll get a pop-up asking you to select which station it should be combined with.
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