OwenApr 28, 2024

Biggest positive takeaways from the line 2 opening:
- The Master planned development near stations (Overlake and Spring District) is genuinely good.
- The Spring District shallow station is awesome

Biggest negative takeaways:
- the at grade stuff -- intersections and pedestrian access -- is extremely bad
- Blows my mind how much parking is surrounding the stations.
- Using highway adjacent right-of-ways is a disaster for walkability

#Transit #Seattle

Show threadSeattleSwiftieApr 28, 2024

@owen honestly have no idea how #soundtransit didn't see what happened on MLK way and SODO and see the need to grade separate. The two slooowest parts of the line, all because of at-grade trains.

One cheapout will be decades of slower transit

Show threadOwen
@seattleswiftie it's illustrative of the larger problems at ST!
Apr 28, 2024 at 5:17amWeb