Federal Way Downtown:

Besides the fact that this station is confusingly named as a “downtown” station, it probably has the best land use. Pulling the station away from I-5 means the land around the station can a destination and not just a pass through.

Star Lake Station:

Possibly the worst siting (see above post). Much of the area nearby is wetlands

Kent Des Moines Station:

Near Highline College but surrounded by highways

(Highline College actually advocated for the station to be on the west side of SR99 but ultimately lost)

I spent much of my childhood in London and the city has many transportation wins (Congestion Charge Zone, world class rapid transit, many pedestrianized streets), but the lack of pedestrian priority broadly annoys me.

The pedestrian islands are nice but the highway code says there is no automatic priority at such “uncontrolled points”

This is WILD! Particularly in comparison to the pedestrian priority at ALL intersections in Seattle.

A bit confusingly worded. You could be right that if it doesn’t meet one of the two criteria it is over (i.e. is no longer under 0.5%)

From WA Secretary of State website:

“A machine recount is required when the difference between the top two candidates is less than 2,000 votes AND ALSO less than 1/2 of 1% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates.”

I believe this is all of the remaining guaranteed votes. So not including the challenged ballets that may be cured.

Also from a pollution and current pedestrian infrastructure viewpoint this is not a great place for housing.

I agree that Seattle desperately needs more housing and this project was supposed to be half affordable housing…but this Sodo carve out was done through a rushed and crappy process. It was widely seen as a favor for Sara Nelson’s friend, Chris Hansen.

Updated number of 6,400 ballot left to count from King County Elections (not including ballots that can be cured) so… looking very unlikely to not go to a recount.

Btw, I’m not very familiar with the recount laws that govern Seattle mayoral races so take this with many grains of salt.

www.sos.wa.gov/recounts-was...

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