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 threadNeil E. HodgesApr 28, 2024
@owen @seattleswiftie At least it isn't as bad as MAX. :/
Show threadSeattleSwiftie
@tk @owen fair, but don't discredit it either. I'd love to have a network as extensive as MAX
Apr 28, 2024 at 4:51pmWeb