in better news, sound transit successfully thought hard enough to bring WSLE back into the realm of affordability (with the caveat that avalon station is definitely gonna get axed)

any updates on HB 2711?

the counterargument there is
1. DSTT2 being a regional expense was an accounting trick all along. it's not set in stone
2. i'm not sure about 10% of the project cost, but what's unambiguously true is that $4b is ~10% of the *total shortfall* -- which is huge!

preferred alt is at 15th, no?

Bar graph showing ST ridership over the last 13 months

In May, Sound Transit reached it's highest weekday ridership since November 2019 with over 158k daily.

Lets talk about it!
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Crossroads Bible Church

This implies the existence of a Crossroads Qur'an Church and a Crossroads Torah Church

Not that anyone asked me, but I'm a lot more optimistic about Dow as Sound Transit CEO than a lot of the other Seattle transit advocates I've talked to. I do think the process has done untold damage to Sound Transit's overall public perception though.

i think she meant what program

ok i’m trying my best to touch grass through all of this but it doesn’t *eliminate* westlake per se, right? like i have significant issues w the concept but

everything else aside, calling nicole unambitious is crazy lmao bsky.app/profile/sdrx...

we can do good things, but we have a finite supply of political capital to do them with!

my new strategy of “everyone who disagrees with me is stupid and unambitious” is sure to draw support for my cause

engage with the thread on its merits. where is it wrong?

not now honey, mommy’s arguing about transit on the internet

six different physics conference talks that i'm gonna watch today

kitp particle physics conference and chill 🤩

yes, probably around there

good joke where’d you get it 😇

waiting for white smoke to come billowing out of the union station chimneys

unrelated, but we do know the outcome: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Sound Transit Study Bolsters Case Against CID Station at Fourth Avenue - The Urbanist # A third-party consultant told the Sound Transit board this week that the Fourth Avenue station option in Chinatown is

Ballard Link update: lengthy construction timelines along with a laundry list of risks that come with operating next to a BNSF rail line make a Fourth Avenue option "not reasonably constructible", a third-party consultant told the Sound Transit board this week.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/16/s...

okay, glad to see i'm not crazy. time for ST to go back to CID people and test refined 5th diagonal vs. N/S, i think

ryan, is it your feeling that ST has greatly reduced the construction impacts of 5th relative to a couple years ago? it seems far less hurtful than it did previously...

well, here i am

wow that's crazy

certainly not