Luckily it’s already sinking

You can nominate this post to the Bluesky landmark and preservation board

Parking garage in Seattle’s Pioneer Square named ‘coolest’ place to park in the nation The garage, whose triangular shape and position on a hill creates the illusion of a boat's bow in water, beat out nine garages for top honors. The "Sinking Ship" sits in the footprint of the Seattle H...

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Someone should landmark the sinking ship garage.

It's architecturally iconic and a critical component to understand the city's relationship with the preservation movement

I see. Sorry for getting triggered

You could do a suboptimal placement. You can also add a crossover just south of ID station which would at least help a bit

You def don’t need to blast to add them

Also, people always justify lounges as being cheaper than airport food but like you can just eat at home or in a real restaurant outside the airport. Why show up hours early to justify your purchases?

There’s no reason to spend more time in the airport than you need to.

If I arrive to the gate before boarding starts, I lost.

Conversely, if the suburban subareas are not penciling and an automated metro study (like the tunnel one from Claudia) concludes significant cost savings, the suburban subareas may start begging for an automated WS/Ballard link instead of ditching scope in the suburbs

I have a feeling like this may be the next Race the L8.

“Mont-LATE” lid anyone?

Or they spend 30 seconds explaining they’re about to check fares so they can’t check a whole car between stops. Abroad, one person enters the car and screams “tickets” and rushes through them all

If they were to do this before May 1, they could get it on the August ballot

You say the county council has no power here which is technically true but couldn’t they could submit a charter amendment to voters asking for the authority to remove the assessor?

Would be interested to know how much housing levy revenues would increase if MHA were eliminated

For Ballard at least (and WS to an extent), the coast guard make sure the elevated approach was most expensive

If I understand right, Seattle has pledged it if needed. ST will only ask for it if the tunneled option is more expensive than the elevated one, which I think is no longer the case?

Seattle pledged that 3p funding and I think is on the hook to provide it is ST asks for it

I understand that but if you’re advocating to automate WS, we can’t build it now, we need new designs

I think we should control our costs and bring in people to drive that (as we’ve done previously) but there’s not some Copenhagen style cost cutting memo staff forgot to read.

It will take time to reduce costs and may not be possible in a reasonable timeframe

Yea I think we’re agreeing. Just saying we can’t put all our eggs into one basket of “cut cost” but we certainly should try

Even if you make the stations half as large, that doesn’t make the project half the price. I understand what you’re saying and I agree ALM > Link

I agree with you but it adds a lot of risk to the project. What if it’s 2030 and we haven’t reduced costs?

WS also needs to be viewed in context. Collectively, buses in west Seattle spend about half their time going between it and downtown

Yes they have (I think exclusive) control over fares and fare enforcement

Ok but now you’re talking about delaying west Seattle a few years.

How would the tunnels and bridges be cheaper?

I suppose it is an answer but it is not a solution

The Seattle subarea gets a 49% discount on the Ballard Link. Suburbanites want redundancy and are willing to pay for it.

Will an automated metro really be half the price? Are we really expecting sound transit to solve the country’s cost disease?

Or a day pass with every hotel stay!

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I think this photo is AI. The trees aren’t casting shadows and some of the people don’t appear to have heads

There’s a higher res version on Reddit

This seems to also be true of reforms that make units nicer like eliminating side setbacks and single stair reform which seem to be driven by architects not developers