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
Is at-grade that big a problem if it's not crossing or running along an arterial? Also seems to me they could close Spring St to traffic if they really wanted to, leaving 24th as the only really problematic crossing...
When I said at-grade, I really meant they failed to grade separate. They could make fixes but ST has shown no appetite to do that. And the rider/pedestrian grade crossings don't have an easy/cheap fix.
pedestrian bridge?
(yeah, I know, it's easy to spend multiple millions on a single pedestrian bridge, which is cheap for Road Stuff, but they'd still have to Actually Do It....)
ROW ?
(sorry that one's hard to google)
Owen
Matthew Dockrey
Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔