Matt G1

Hilarious. (starts working on a city-sized umbrella design, in the hope that it will qualify for "shovel ready" infrastructure money)...

Well, I sent an e-mail to SDOT about this about a half hour ago and they immediately added a note to the streetcar website in bold letters. They may not be proactive, but at least they're responsive....

True, but to be fair Seattle doesn't operate the streetcar - King County does (who does list it being down on their website). I agree the shutdown should appear in bold letters on the streetcar websi...

The SLUT saved me a good 20 minutes walking on Thursday, when the bus system was a mess. And it's free until December 26. It's just too bad they didn't spend the money on heated switches, which pred...

I've been calling the ruler stuck vertically in the snow on my back porch the snodometer....

I'm not sure where I stand on the salt issue. I'm happy I live in a place that doesn't corrode my car to shreds, and I'd hesitate to dump even more chemicals into the sound. But there are some good ...

What [brad] said. But take all of the buses that would have served the canceled routes and drive them on the open routes too. I'd be happy to walk down QA hill if they had a bus come by every 10 min...

[Simonian] Actually, the streetcars that went up and down the counterbalance were counterbalanced both ways (going down is how they got the weight back to the top)....

I used snowshoes to get to work today, after nearly falling on ice on the way down the hill friday. It worked well. I walked right past all of the bus stops once down the hill, since I've found buse...

I can see I-5 from my window (I'm south a half mile or so), and it's getting slow. My guess is that it's exciting enough for people to drive really slow to check it out on the way past. My point? I...

Ouch. 13% cut across the board for higher education and 6% cut in community and technical colleges. Plus they're cutting $800M from K-12. This turns a short-term budget problem into a long-term eco...

I have an idea. Let's build the Choppway hybrid. Build a few deep bore freeways, combine them with a few high-capacity surface streets, add a massive viaduct, and top it not with a grass lined stree...

The Queen Anne car was actually just a streetcar, but with a counterbalance-pulley system that it hooked into (this is why Queen Anne Avenue is called the Counterbalance between Roy and Galer). The...

[bilco] I struggle with the concept that cheap suburban buses are really that good for our world. If we load, say, half of the drivers onto buses then the roads would be clog-free. But wouldn't tha...

Greens strips are meant to alert drivers that there's a bike lane there, so don't be an ass and make a sharp right turn....