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Seattle Subway

@SeattleSubway

5 years

This is just the “green” version of a Hummer. It’s an egregious example of a trend towards ever more pedestrian hostile vehicles. It also a continues a trend towards ever more paranoid design. We don’t live on Fury Road. These vehicles have no place in our cities.

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Great news!! $150 MILLION proposed (w/ potential $600-700 million federal funds) for⚡️200mph⚡️bullet trains!!! Thx @SenMarkoLiias ! #WaLeg #MoveAheadWA #TranspoPackage

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

This is a better use of public investment than a new airport.

Sierra Club Seattle

@SierraClubSEA

1 year

Cascadia high speed rail can help free up capacity at our region's airports, rather than building an expensive new airport that will damage our environment and worsen the climate crisis. It's also better - and cheaper - than widening freeways.

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@SeattleSubway

3 months

One of our starting points as an org was "why can't we just copy Vancouver?" Sky Train is: Grade separated, driverless, very frequent, thoughtful transit connections, and dense station zoning. This stuff isn't rocket surgery. When the train is good people ride it in droves.

Yonah Freemark

@yfreemark

3 months

Vancouver transit now carrying ~1.2m riders/day, in a metro area of ~2.6m. Compare: —Seattle transit: ~460k riders/day, in metro of 4 m —Bay Area transit: ~900k riders/day, in metro of 4.6–9.5m, depending on how you count —Chicago transit: ~1.1m riders/day, in metro of 9.6m

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

❄️ Snow Train! ❄️ Fast, reliable transit no matter the conditions. Thank you, @SoundTransit #SeattleWinter #Seattlesnow #SeattleWx

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@SeattleSubway

8 months

Link was designed by mid-1990’s politics and it looks like that will haunt the system forever. We should not be running “Light Rail” to every flung suburban city. Seattle needed a Metro style subway and the region needed commuter rail.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

8 months

NEW STORY // Sound Transit Doubles Down on Flat Link Fares, Queuing Up 30% Hike for Most Riders via @urbanistorg // 🔗

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Ever feel like you’ve been swindled?

Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley

1 year

Here's your new highway connector, Climate Vanguard City Seattle.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Ok, we've come up with what we hope is an incomplete but helpful political map of Seattle for those who were confused about about why it's ok to spend hundreds of millions building a 520 lid in Montlake while also being ok to delete CID and Midtown stations in ST3.

Seattle Subway

@SeattleSubway

1 year

Serious question: Why does a highway section surrounded by exclusive zoning and mega-expensive housing get a lid and highway sections next to thousands of apartments don’t? Just kidding. We know why.

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Great news!! SB 5528 passes the Senate Transportation Committee! One step closer to making this subway map (and/or many more new local transit improvements) real for Puget Sound! 😍

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

For those out there less familiar with the genre, this is what a transfer is supposed to look like.

Seattle Subway

@SeattleSubway

1 year

This plus 4-ish minutes to get to the platform and who knows how long for the next train. Call the whole thing 12-17 minutes at peak. Virtually no one will do this more than once if they don’t absolutely have to.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

We now know the first name of our bus lane hero: Erin! All hail Erin!

KOMO News

@komonews

5 years

A woman jumped out into a bus-only lane in downtown Seattle and forced cars back into their own lanes.

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

Thread: exploring @SoundTransit ’s three new light rail stations as part of the 4.3-mile #NorthgateLink light rail extension, which will add 40,000-50,000 additional daily riders post-COVID, at a cost of $1.9B. The project arrived $50m under budget.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Breaking: Citing “safety reasons” @wsdot is closing down all Washington roads to cars until further notice. No further information is available but it’s hard to argue with the assessment.

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@SeattleSubway

7 months

We can’t install bollards because people might drive into them and scratch their car’s paint.

Nick

@NickSattele

7 months

Apparently this car completely demolished the bus shelter

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@SeattleSubway

8 years

Apparently @seattletimes thinks The Seattle Times is unaffordable. #ST3

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

This plus 4-ish minutes to get to the platform and who knows how long for the next train. Call the whole thing 12-17 minutes at peak. Virtually no one will do this more than once if they don’t absolutely have to.

Jackson Teal

@jbteal

1 year

What will it look like to connect from Sounder or Amtrak service at King Street Station to the North of CID 1-line station? (Original video was 7min 18sec)

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

Big turnout for 4th today at the @SoundTransit board meeting.

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

In a shocking turn of events, society realized that Teslas in tunnels are not a viable public transportation solution. Or much of any solution. For anything. Want to move thousands of people in a livable city? Build mass transit.

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@SeattleSubway

10 months

Love this message and this is an excellent location to make a point about accessibility. Placing a key transfer an 8-11 minute walk away instead of a short underground connection is a system defining mistake. CID station must be located on 4th.

Sound Transit - 🚆 🚈 🚍

@SoundTransit

10 months

For nearly a third of people living in the United States – commuting by car is not an option. #WeekWithoutDriving helps us to better understand access to transportation and support our continued efforts to improve regional and local transit systems. @JulieETimm @americawalks

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Serious question: Why does a highway section surrounded by exclusive zoning and mega-expensive housing get a lid and highway sections next to thousands of apartments don’t? Just kidding. We know why.

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@pushtheneedle

1 year

@SeattleSubway cant wait for the plaza

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@SeattleSubway

9 months

We’ve been banging this drum for a long time. It is never ok to leave Link riders behind. If you miss the last train there should be an obvious option available that does the same thing.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

9 months

NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Sound Transit Should Run Link All Night or Provide Shadow Night Bus Service via @urbanistorg // 🔗

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

Spending $180M to shift the station a little north and keep this road open a little longer doesn't seem to matter to anyone on the Sound Transit Board. It's almost like the cost concerns over saving CID and Midtown stations aren't in good faith.

Murray Chapman

@murraychapman

11 months

@UrbanistOrg Westlake Ave, 2pm today (Wednesday). Heaven forbid we should temporarily close two blocks of this critical thoroughfare.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

The coalition for 4th ran out of signs at the Sound Transit Board Meeting. Hey @SoundTransit - Read the room.

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

Biden’s trillion+ infrastructure bill MUST fund a West Seattle multimodal bridge that integrates light rail, bus lanes, cars, & bike/pedestrian right of ways - getting rail to W. Seattle way faster. @RepJayapal @Lisa_Herbold @MikeLindblom @KromanDavid @KccClaudia @samzimbabwe

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@SeattleSubway

9 months

There is a version of the future where this great public space is a common part of the transit experience in Seattle. For this and many other reasons, a station on 4th in ST3 is worth the fight.

Bruce Englehardt

@SounderBruce

9 months

Union Station is still a stunning place for public meetings. And would be a great concourse for a 4th Ave Station.

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@SeattleSubway

6 months

Counterpoint: No it won’t and you should never plan for people giving up on getting where they need to go. This is no way to treat the people who rely on Link.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

6 months

NEW STORY // Sound Transit Says 1 Line Headaches Will 'Smooth Themselves Out' via @urbanistorg // 🔗

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

@SoundTransit In case anyone in this thread missed it:

Sound Transit: Stop wasting time and money on endless process

The voters approved major expansion in 2016, and expect Sound Transit to deliver it. Since then, the public has had to participate in years of process and community engagement which produced the...

actionnetwork.org

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@SeattleSubway

1 month

How is everyone enjoying the “2024 Rapid Ride Network” promised in Move Seattle?

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@SeattleSubway

3 months

Unless there is an immediate danger to riders, @SoundTransit should never close a transit station. This is the 3rd time we can think of where the goal of closing a station seems to be “stop protestors from using the station.” Did we also try to stop protestors from using I-5?

Seattle Bike Blog

@seabikeblog

3 months

Sound Transit should not do this. Transit is for the people to get around their city, even if they are going to a protest.

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

It’s been a long road for Seattle to get to a citywide Link Plan (bottom right.) Huge thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way and @Spottnik and the @seattledot crew for including it in the new Transit Master Plan.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

Whooo! HB2123 (cut ST3 funds) failed to make it out of committee and is virtually dead this session. Thanks to the 1150+ people who contacted your reps!! Also thanks to @NoelFrame who just delivered the news to D36 transit supporters.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Well, @SoundTransit cut our statement short but we were about to say that literally thousands of their constituents have reached out to support our official statement. So, again we’ll say: Read the room.

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@SeattleSubway

10 months

You just don’t get it, man. The city of Seattle exists to be a conduit for freight. People are entirely superfluous to this grand purpose. Hope that helps.

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@pushtheneedle

10 months

aurora avenue when?

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@SeattleSubway

4 years

We’ve heard people say our vision map is too ambitious. Yeah... no. Our vision map represents the minimum urban system for a city where transit is the primary mode.

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@pushtheneedle

4 years

All of Paris Metro's system + stops overlayed on Seattle

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

The idea that killing CID and Midtown stations is about money needs to die. The @SoundTransit board is comfortable adding hundreds of millions of dollars via other decisions they are making, including the decision to delay making a decision on routing until 2026 (!!!)

Mike Lindblom

@MikeLindblom

11 months

Harrell, Constantine light-rail ideas add years, money to Sound Transit planning

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Amazon is urging @SoundTransit to spend $140M of your money to make changes that don’t benefit transit riders at all. It’s understandable that they would ask for it, but it doesn’t mean your representatives have to listen.

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

Here's a condensed version of our walk along the very bad Sounder/Amtrak to North of CID Transfer that is being proposed as a replacement for the transit hub promised to voters in ST3. 10 Minutes and 52 seconds not including time to get to the platform or wait for the train.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

4th Shallower Advances!!!*

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

The coalition for 4th ran out of signs at the Sound Transit Board Meeting. Hey @SoundTransit - Read the room.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

“No backroom deal” but we’re just going to slide this back room dealing consultant $280k to make a backroom de… I mean “encourage agreement.” - @MayorofSeattle

Erica C. Barnett ericacbarnett on all platforms

@ericacbarnett

1 year

City Paid Consultant Tim Ceis $280,000 to “Encourage Agreement” and Build “Community Consensus” for Harrell’s Light Rail Route

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

The WA/OR highway project claims to save car trips 6 mins (which induces demand will whittle away). Meanwhile, Northgate Link light rail shaved off 27 MINS from bus commutes and built a 100% traffic-free connection between Roosevelt and Westlake - permanently. Build trains.

Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley

2 years

We are being told that in 2045 this trip will take 63 minutes during peak morning hours unless we spend several billion dollars, in which case it will take 57 minutes.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Media clarifications re: CID station debate. 1). 4th is not in the middle of the CID. 2). In ST plans, 4th is never fully closed during construction. 3). Based on what we know, most CID residents favor a station on 4th. 1/2

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@SeattleSubway

10 months

We’ve been singing this song for a while. Sound Transit should *never* leave a rider stranded or worried they will be stuck. A Link routed bus that does exactly what Link does and fills the service gap fixes this problem.

Northwest Urbanist

@NWUrbanist

10 months

If Sound Transit won't operate light rail 12am-4am how about running a bus along the route every night @JulieETimm ? People need ways to get around besides driving at night.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

This is very, very, bad. We need a plan and political support to fix this.

Mike Lindblom

@MikeLindblom

1 year

King County Metro to trim 4% of service this fall; not enough drivers and mechanics.

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@SeattleSubway

7 years

Hey, you guys. How's traffic? #LINK @SoundTransit

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Seattle has a real funny way of dying.

Mike Baker

@ByMikeBaker

1 year

Census data shows that Seattle was the fastest-growing big city last year. via @genebalk

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@SeattleSubway

8 months

We should be asking "why does @soundtransit have a board?" WSDOT doesn't have a board. Sound Transit has a mission and voter approved projects. The board exists exclusively to make all of this more difficult - and they never seem to do that on behalf of riders.

Robert Cruickshank

@cruickshank

8 months

While I hope @SoundTransit is able to find a good new CEO, the board itself seems to be the primary problem: a bunch of local electeds for whom transit isn’t actually a priority, who aren’t interested in what riders need, who meddle in key decisions to favor allies.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Tell @SoundTransit to stop with the endless process and deliver what voters approved already!

The Stranger 🗞

@TheStranger

1 year

GUEST RANT from @SeattleSubway : Join the movement to stop the delays and build the fucking trains already.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

It’s time the @SoundTransit board stopped this nonsense, made decisions, and stopped being a barrier to the agency delivering what voters approved 7 (!!!) years ago.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

1 year

NEW: Harrell Advances New Denny Station Options That Could Delay Ballard Link

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@SeattleSubway

4 years

Seattle Subway will never stop in our effort to build the world class transit system our city and region deserves. Think our map is too audacious? Check the map at right and see what audacious cities do. In comparison, ours is but a modest proposal. #HB1304 helps get us there!

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

4 years

. @SeattleSubway has pushed HB1304 as part of its broader #ST4 effort to expand rapid transit in Seattle and lower carbon emissions and pollution. #ClimateJustice

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1 year

This is really objectively good and we’re really glad @MayorofSeattle came around on this. Credit where credit is due, he was talking ridership and walksheds in today’s meeting. Stuff that very much matters to transit riders. We’re huge fans of that.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

1 year

Mayor Harrell also says that the Denny DT-1 Westlake station is necessary with mitigation.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

@Walter_Kelley @hanamkim Haha, soooo... 1).Around this location there are often more people on bikes than people in cars. 2).The person on the bike is doing what they are supposed to in order to turn left. 3). You can wait.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Ignoring the results of the public input.

Mike Lindblom

@MikeLindblom

1 year

@DavidColeAIA They're asking for public input, what could be more authentically City of Seattle than that?

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

This endless churn isn’t free. Looks like a new EIS could cost >$100M in direct costs in addition to the indirect costs and years of delay. It a politician tries to tell you deleting CID and Midtown station is about money, they are lying.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

1 year

Sound Transit is set to increase its services contract with HNTB by another $147 million for a total of $319 million to continue early planning and design on the West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions. Motion:

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@SeattleSubway

8 months

Backroom Bruce is at it again. Pushing @SoundTransit to waste time and money on another 11th hour option that is bad for transit riders. Why? Because transit riders don’t matter - Amazon and Vulcan do. @MayorofSeattle

Mike Lindblom

@MikeLindblom

8 months

Where should South Lake Union light rail go? A look at two difficult locations underground:

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

. @MayorofSeattle and @kcexec are intent on destroying ST3 and the @SoundTransit board largely doesn’t care.

Harrell pays consultant $280K to lobby for his Seattle light-rail positions

The no-bid consulting contract with former Seattle Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis began last February, to help advance Mayor Harrell's light-rail positions.

www.seattletimes.com

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

The Venn diagram between people who say a 10 minute transfer (not including wait time) is perfectly fine and people who freak out if they have to park more than a block away from their destination is a perfect circle.

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Want this ST4 map to become real?! Simply click ✅ 'PRO' at: to approve SB 5528! #SoundTransit4

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

Did you know that tomorrow is the first time you’ll be able to wake up to Seattle that has a citywide Link plan? It’s wild but true. Ben deserves a huge percent of the kudos for that.

Ben Broesamle

@BenBroesamle

11 months

Can't lie to you, this *draft* map might be a representation of a significant portion of my personality for the last dozen+ years doing @SeattleSubway with the likes of @KeithBKyle & @JHopLovesTrains & many others whose handles I don't have memorized. BTW, we might have notes...

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

@drvolts Seattle. Sorry, we had to answer this.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

To be extra clear about how property tax works: This means you pay more property tax so that the Broadmoor Country Club can get a break.

Paul "Why are golf courses valued ₵ on the $?"

@PoulChapman

5 years

This is what inequitable access to power buys you. Here is Seattle’s Broadmoor Country Club, surrounded with concertina wire. The club pays just $34,000 in property tax on 120 acres of pesticide soaked grass. That’s just 0.5% of the property tax paid by the surrounding houses.

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@SeattleSubway

7 months

Link used to have total signal priority. It never (or very rarely) stopped at lights. It pretty much always stops at at least one light now. A post-build transit quality degrade.

Jonathan Hopkins 🚅🚇🚎🚲🛴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

@JHopLovesTrains

7 months

Have you ever been on a @SoundTransit 1️⃣ Line train that stops at every streetlight? I have.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

It is @SeattleSubway ’s OFFICIAL position that @soundtransit ’s #4thAveShallower in CID, 45 feet below the surface of 4th Ave, is just plain SEXY! @JulieETimm @MayorofSeattle @kcexec @KccClaudia @JoeMcDermottWA @D5Juarez @TheStranger @UrbanistOrg @SeaTransitBlog @seattletimes

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@SeattleSubway

9 months

Looking at Link’s mind blowing popularity, it’s hard not to wonder why the Seattle representatives on the @SoundTransit board don’t take transit quality more seriously.

Chris Daniels

@ChrisDaniels_TV

9 months

Yes, a new poll suggests Bringing Back the Sonics to Seattle is more popular… …than Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell More via ⁦ @JeremyHarrisTV ⁩ ⁦ @komonews ⁩ #Sonics #NBA

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

People in the US call 15 minute transit “frequent” - we’re glad to see SDOT frame 10 minutes or less as the real “frequent.” It’s where transit becomes frequent enough to *really* not need a schedule.

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@SeattleSubway

10 months

Why are we doing this?

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

10 months

To build 400 new parking stalls, Sound Transit will spend about $180,000 a piece. That comes out to a parking subsidy of $6,000 per driver per year over 30 years.

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@SeattleSubway

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Andrew Engelson

@andyengelson

1 year

Definitely the sexiest booth at Capitol Hill Pride Fest. @SeattleSubway 🚈🏳️‍🌈

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

There are already enough @SoundTransit stations that require TOD to make sense. Chinatown/ID needs a station where people and regional connections already are, which everyone knows is 4th. The Seattle Times presents a lot of the self conflicting narrative in the article 1/?

The Seattle Times

@seattletimes

1 year

A prominent Seattle developer controls about 7 acres around the possible site of a new light-rail station south of the Chinatown International District.

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Build trains, NOT Tesla tunnels.

sam

@sam_d_1995

2 years

feels like every few weeks a new Silicon Valley tech company tries to “revolutionize transportation” but ends up just reinventing a bus

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@SeattleSubway

2 months

Breaking news: consultants agreed with staff that the Ballard Link option Amazon proposed was worse for transit riders (3,000 fewer riders per DAY), delays opening at least 10 months, and costs an extra $525 million or more. Surprisingly, the Board did not pursue this bad idea.

Hannah Krieg

@hannahkrieg

2 months

Harrells talking. He said there's no debate that 5th is feasible. But he's not going to make a motion to support it given the 10 month delay

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@SeattleSubway

23 days

This is wild. Rapid Ride R, a relatively low quality BRT line, now has a planned opening 16 YEARS after voters approved it.

Ryan Packer

@typewriteralley

23 days

A new report from @KingCountyMetro sets the timeline for RapidRide R on Rainier Avenue, Seattle's next RapidRide line after the J Line, at a 2031 opening. As recently as last year a 2028 start of service was said to be feasible.

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@SeattleSubway

3 months

❤️

Claudia Balducci

@KccClaudia

3 months

@bmaryman Let’s build some more

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Love this map? Simply click ✅ ‘PRO’ at to help make it real.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

The @SoundTransit board needs to be made up of daily transit riders. It isn’t, and it shows. Shout out to @KccClaudia for being an exception (and an exceptional leader.)

The Stranger 🗞

@TheStranger

1 year

GUEST RANT from @SeattleSubway : Join the movement to stop the delays and build the fucking trains already.

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

Not a typo. 25 new stations. 3 years.

Claudia Balducci

@KccClaudia

3 years

It’s amazing to consider that over the next three years, we’ll be opening 25 more @SoundTransit light rail stations in cities across the region, including Bellevue, Redmond, Shoreline, Lynnwood, Kent & Federal Way. #ToNorthgateAndBeyond #Link21

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10 months

Both issues have the same obvious solution: Governments need to actually build things rather than contracting everything out. The public/private partnership has broken down for a million obvious reasons.

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@MikeLindblom

10 months

Prices skyrocket on WA transportation projects, and fewer contractors want the jobs

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Transit quality matters. This concept is only hard to communicate because SO MANY decision makers don’t actually rely on transit.

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@the_transit_guy

1 year

Transit that’s faster than cars is how we get people out of their vehicles. ( @RM_Transit )

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@SeattleSubway

4 years

We’ve seen a lot of weak “density = bad cuz viruses” takes this past week. It takes a lot of truthiness to make this case. Back in the real world some the densest cities have done the best job of slowing CV-19. The key is cooperation. Let’s work together and get through this.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

Yes.

CNET

@CNET

5 years

Would you want to live in a neighborhood with no cars?

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@SeattleSubway

7 months

Hyperloop, as an idea, was always about trying to kill HSR. It was one of the first big public hints that Musk isn’t that great of a person. The deeper you dug into claims made by him and others, the more clear it became that no serious thoughts were occurring.

Qagggy!

@Qagggy

7 months

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂hahaha hahaha hahaha hahahaha hahahahah <deep breath> hahahaha hahahahaha haha hahahaha ha haha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣hahahaha hahhaha hahah

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@SeattleSubway

24 days

I’m not sure if anyone was actually confused about which party is better on transit, but just in case you were:

Hayden Clarkin

@the_transit_guy

26 days

Project 2025 calls for no more transit funding btw

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Our rage headache has subsided but we're going to stay mad about @SoundTransit deleting two essential ST3 stations at the behest of @kcexec and @MayorofSeattle The fight isn't over, but having the boss of SDOT and the head of the ST Board pulling strings doesn't bode well.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

You did it!!! This is already impressive but more is always better. It only takes 30 seconds or so:

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

To be extra clear to folks following east DRB drama this evening: It’s an unstated (though heavily implied) position of Seattle Subway that design review shouldn’t exist. We are in a housing crisis. The subjective aesthetic views of an unelected board shouldn’t hold any power.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

@wsdot_traffic What do people imagine will happen to the backup that starts about 1000 yards north of here now that the flow of cars to it is less restricted? Ps: If this doesn’t fix things can we stop doing stuff like this forever?

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

#NorthgateLink cuts Seattle commute times by MORE THAN HALF across the board (3x faster for U-District, 4x faster for Roosevelt)!!⚡️This is real change & equity. We need #LightRail4All @CMLGonzalez @bruceforseattle @kcexec @meetjoenguyen @CMTMosqueda @Nikkita4Nine @Sara4Council

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

But seriously, the community deserved to be heard rather than having Harrell (with public funds) parachute in a fossil industry lobbyist to: 1) Seal a backroom deal 2) Push a false media narrative 3). (maybe) engage in some astroturfing

Seattle Subway

@SeattleSubway

1 year

@KarlAlexPauls @dseater @MayorofSeattle Haha, we’ll take the $280k - but better yet - let’s not publicly fund anyone (or group) to inject any individual’s bias into the process.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

💥💥💥 Let’s get a course reversal on deleting Midtown and CID stations too!

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

1 year

The South Lake Union station for the Ballard Link Extension was suddenly on the chopping block in May, but Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has reversed course by throwing his support behind keeping it and building the Denny station on Westlake. Story:

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

This is an entirely political process. The show made of pretending it isn’t feels insulting to the public at this point. Your feedback means nothing.

Sound Transit - 🚆 🚈 🚍

@SoundTransit

1 year

Live, work, or spend time in South Lake Union (SLU)? We’d like your feedback! Join a webinar either on July 20 or 25 to learn about the Ballard Link Extension’s Denny and South Lake Union stations and make your voice heard:

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@SeattleSubway

4 years

Like transit, but, you know... not all that useful.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Coming soon

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

We made a big deal about open gangways on ST2 trains after ST3 passed. @SoundTransit got pretty annoyed with us about it. Here is why we don’t regret saying anything we said:

Sound Transit Braces for Overcrowding As It Launches Lynnwood Link in 2024 - The Urbanist

The full opening of East Link will bring a reprieve, but overcrowding issues could resume with Federal Way Link. With approximately one year until Sound Transit plans to begin service on its extens...

www.theurbanist.org

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@SeattleSubway

11 months

Whoa!!!!!

Kirk Hovenkotter

@khoven

11 months

Hot off the presses! @seattledot released the first draft of their Seattle Transportation Plan. Check out its ambitious map for potential new light rail expansion routes 👀 More at

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@SeattleSubway

3 years

The concept of building new cities from scratch is the worst Puget Sound idea since the Empire freeway through the Arboretum. Actually, worse. If you want 4 cities capable of holding 300,000 more people, let’s call them Tacoma, Bellevue, Everett, and a Paris-density Seattle.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

3 years

Christine Gregoire’s bubble is still trying to push sprawl onto farmland by hitching a ride on high-speed rail.

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1 year

These garage spaces cost more per rider than the transit itself. There were creative and less expensive solutions that wouldn’t have destroy the station area…. But here we are.

Sound Transit bets $350M on 3 new parking garages

As the future of commuting remains uncertain, the investment in parking is a bet that Sounder riders will return and, when they do, will need more parking.

www.seattletimes.com

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

See the tracks in the bottom of this photo? Under that is where the new Link station is very obviously supposed to go. It’s what was promised to voters. Now @SoundTransit plans to do something far worse, far slower, than the already glacial plan.

HistoryLink.org

@HistoryLink

1 year

#OnThisDay in 1911, Oregon and Washington Station (now Union Station) opened in Seattle.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

Action alert! Use this handy/fast form to tell YOUR representatives: DON’T CUT TRANSIT FUNDING!!!

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

Blammo! $790M grant and $629M low cost loan secured. Federal Way Link is now fully funded and construction starts next year for a 2024 opening!

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

5 years

Feds Pledge $790 Million Grant for Federal Way Link

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@SeattleSubway

2 years

Want light rail up the Aurora 99 corridor?! Yes we’re looking at you, Fremont, Greenlake, Greenwood, Shoreline, and Edmonds…. Tell Sound Transit to futureproof ST3 with a small SR 99 expansion off ramp!

push the needle

@pushtheneedle

2 years

show up and testify for them to build this small off-ramp so we can expand the line up highway 99 without service disruption. it also will make the expansion easier and cheaper.

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@SeattleSubway

1 year

Here we are, spending hundreds of millions on parking while making plans to cut three of the highest ridership stations in ST3.

Seattle Subway

@SeattleSubway

1 year

These garage spaces cost more per rider than the transit itself. There were creative and less expensive solutions that wouldn’t have destroy the station area…. But here we are.

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@SeattleSubway

5 years

Car activists are *very hurt!* that bus lane lady is popular and people are applauding her. Will someone please think of all the drivers who, gosh darn it, just don’t want to obey laws?

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@SeattleSubway

7 years

Reminder.

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