I’m sitting in the Ruth Fisher room at Union Station, which houses Sound Transit. If I’ve learned anything from observing local government, it’s that nothing attracts cranks and looneybirds like these two words:
“Public Comment”
I won’t name names, but Sound Transit has it’s own nuts.
Oh man, you’re making me wish I had come. I almost did, but got lazy.
I can’t say I’m shocked that the cranks who run Sound Transit attract other cranks.
ST’s web site says:”In November 2007, voters turned down a large package of road and transit investments. Now, the Sound Transit Board of Directors is taking a renewed look at what transit service expansions would make the biggest and quickest improvements for commuters for the least cost.”http://www.soundtransit.org/x1190.xmlNow, if they truly do that — i.e., revise their expansion plans to shoot for big improvements in people-moving capacity in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost, that’s something I might be able to support. It’s certainly what I want to see them do. In my book, merely resubmitting ST-2 to voters as a stand-alone ballot measure in the belief voters will approve it without the roads won’t cut it. In that case, I’d still be a “no” vote. Of course, the way you get the biggest increase in passenger capacity in the shortest time at the lowest cost is by adding more buses.
Oh yeah, the last one I went to was insane.
Yay, Ruth Fisher! nice to see someone from Tacoma getting a room named after them in Seattle. Um… This is in Seattle isn’t it?
Ruth Fisher is THE reason that we’re sitting in gridlock today. She changed the old “Department of Highways” to the fucked up mess that is now DOT.We need to shitcan her failed ideas of carpools and trains and other such european horseshit and get back to the American idea of cars and wide open roads.
yeah, let’s put 6 more lanes right next to I-5!! Then we’ll put 6 more lanes next to I 90!! Then we’ll put 6 more lanes next to 520!! Hell pave it all!!!!!!IT’s so obvious anyone who disagrees is an idiot. Why look around the world, all the best metropolises that have the most free flow of mobility have huge highway systems everywhere !!! They never see congestion!!! and these most mobile places never have any transit!! What I’m referring to is those high mobility, high highway density places like ….um………um…..gee can’t think of any….well we know they exist because they must exist!!!and hey throw in MORE GUNS while you’re at it, the places with the most guns are always the places that are most safe!!! Like Pakistan….Colombia…..all very safe…..
Montana: Move to Venezuela. Hugo Chavez is looking for another useful idiot.
Only 14,000 murders last year.
@3: “that’s something I might be able to support.”
Say Rog –
Want to discuss some law stuff?
If you get a moment, take a look at this opinion: Sane Transit v. Sound Transit, 151 Wn.2d 60, 85 P.3d 346 (2004).
I’d like to discuss it with you. Interested?
Along with the wide lines, what we need to do is put gun mounts ON the cars. For example, If anyone is going slow in the fast lane, you can obliterate them with your personal rocket launcher and drive through the space they just were in. If someone left their blinker on, shoot it out. Someone is driving recklessly, shoot out their tires. After a couple of years of good intense firefights, the amount of drivers who don’t follow the rules would be greatly reduced. Be interesting to see if Mark The Redneck-Patriot made it through, or would a bigger badder Mark take him out?
Public transit would be give special gun-free corridors, to balance out that they wouldn’t have heavy weapons. Monorail anyone?
Puddybud @8, #7 was an example of sarcasm.
“Sarcasm is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing.”
Maybe wait to post AFTER the first cup of coffee has settled in?
Blue John: I understood it but even in sarcasm someone is trying to make a point. So my sarcastic response was to move to Venezuela. Sheesh you missed it hook, line, and sinker…