maybe I am simple, but isn‘t this for, like, emergencies? Like, “don’t worry about your expenses exceeding your income, just take out a payday loan for your groceries.”

Of course, I am old enough to remember when oil was a “non renewable resource” wars started over, but now they just export it

a few degrees cooler and we’d be having a nice ski weekend instead of tragedy everywhere

‘Tis the season

Downside: structure held up by what were basically metal zip ties

Upside: upper deck concrete had degraded enough that you were mostly driving on rebar with a bit of concrete sponge anyways

it was lucky we demolished it before nature did

Too many times I have gotten off at the University of Washington stop for restaurants and faced a football stadium.

we should clarify that the U District is the commercial core of UW by renaming it “Downtown University” and name the other UW stop “University Stadium”

It is woke when you use the word processor’s default font

compare Denver, which recently built its airport in the middle of nowhere. Seattle is geographically constrained into a linear shape and they just plopped the airports in a way where the flight paths align with the populated parts of that shape

Looks like this might be in the portion of the upside down “T” on this map, which has been carefully aligned to occur over land and not water

not captured in this map - airplanes doing a 180 degree turn over the King/Snohomish line to do a final approach to SeaTac from the north are quite impactful

lessons in urbanism:
- narrow, walkable streets with traffic calming
- shade with orientation to winds (if they rebuilt the roofs)
- continuous street wall of buildings
- all inhabitants are millennia-old vaporized voids in the earth
- framed views

man, we need to dream bigger

Is this 90 minute time being sold as a good thing? 515 Lynnwood - Westlake (26 minutes, 45 peak rush hour) and 577 2nd and Pike - Federal Way (30 min, slight hit at morning rush hour) is less bus time if they make the transfers work. Link is not ideal for super long trips without express service.

"Pines on Pike," not to be confused with medieval weapons pop-up "Pikes on Pine" a block north.

Not pictured: the big Edmonds school district bus parking lot next to the Lynnwood station.

Redmond is actually not bad though!