The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E.
I’ve promised friends I’d pick them up at the airport around 9 pm, so unless the flight comes in ahead of schedule (hah!) I’ll stop by early.
Instead of wasting your money on liquor, donate it tonight.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
umm prr:
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=950
reading hard? :p
You kidding me?
I NEVER read what that moron has to say.
As I’ve already noted over at WA State Political Report, I’m going to Safeco tonight to watch the hated Yankees beat the M’s. So, no DL for me this week.
To prr — I donated $100 to the Red Cross this morning, and I’ll surely contribute more soon. Let’s see you top that.
Goldy, will you steal the 42 inch Sony plasma TV that is behind the bar? [You know, kind of like your fellow “progressives” in New Orleans. In addition the New Orleans Foot Locker reports dozens of Michael Jordan basketball shoes somehow have been “liberated” by looters. Windie, what do you know about “Looters For Kerry”?
Aren’t you libs supposed to take Metro to/from the airport? I mean they have runs that go there, so who takes the bus?
And then once Sound Transit sort of runs its line there, will you use it?
GOLDY
If your friends were able to fly on Southwest Airline to Boeing Field, you would save fossil fuel, time & money.
I agree with righton however….there are plenty of busses from the airport that would allow you to save fuel, time & money as well.
Oh Goldy, I almost forgot. You could also save on pollution and do your fair share for saving the Earth. But then again, you obviously want all of us to sacrifice….but not you. That is the typical LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOT outlook on life. Do as I say….not as I do.
Hey Moonbats – I don’t think any of you lived up to the courage of your convictions last week when I asked you to ride Metro to DL. Please provide an example for us knuckle draggers by actually using the mass transit you want to inflict on the rest of us. Be sure to let us know how you like the guy with the green hair and 275 pound “mother of his children” all of whom are running around screaming.
Also, please post how many “War Is Terror” bumper stickers are in the parking lot.
Hey redneck, as I said, I don’t have an ID, that means I don’t drive and take metro everywhere I go if I can’t walk. I can’t walk a lot of places because your damn stinky highway is running right through my right of way where I should be walking.
Either get rid of your stinky highway or pay taxes for my bus. In either case, get your filthy hands out of my pocket. Or is your next step another undeclaired tax requiring everyone to own a car then requiring them to buy insurance from you?
Hey cynical, go curl up and die.
Mark –
I ride Metro and Sound Transit almost every day. They work great! People who want to take metro can take the 43 or 48 (among other routes) to go to the Montlake Ale Tavern.
I can’t be there tonight, but ordinarily, I take the 43 from a stop 4 blocks from my house; it drops me off 1/2 block from DL.
Your point, Mark?
Heath
prr@3 –
So don’t read what Goldy posts, but you post your replies here. What’s the value in you and your contribution? Just F-ing things up for your perceived enemies?
Bill uh… I DO pay for your bus. You’re welcome. WTF are you talking about with the ID thing and my hand in your pocket? You make no sense. And “insurance”? It’s OK to vomit out the talking points you were given, but fercrissakes, at least try to use them in some kind of coherent order.
righton@5 –
The main problem with taking Metro or Sound Transit routes to the airport is: Where do you put all the luggage? I have taken the bus to the airport a dozen times, but only when I had nothing more than a carry-on.
Heath – You are an inspiration to all us knuckle draggers. Have fun on the bus. Thanks for staying off the road, so I can get through with my luxury SUV.
Cynical@6 –
I can’t believe you want to see Boeing’s Phantomworks airstrip being used for commercial aviation. Doesn’t that cause some kind of troubling conflict, where the military-industrial complex is going to have to be shoved to one side in favor of a crappy airline? My guess is that some people want Southwest to use Boeing Field so that Boeing Field will turn into “King County International Airport.”
Mark –
I love watching all you dumb-asses in SUVs spending 20 minutes longer to get home in a less-safe vehicle that pollutes needlessly. If my bus runs over your SUV, I’m going to win that encounter, y’know?
But you’re stupid to think that you can get around faster at rush hour than Metro, unless you can’t figure out Metro.
Hey redneck asshole, you are the one whos been trying to justify requiring ID for voting, thats a tax. You’re the one who said that busses are something you shouldn’t have to pay for, even though youve stolen my right of way for your road.
What the hell do you mean, you’re welcome, you stole right of way for your road. You don’t get to have roads all over the place unless you replace right of way.
You know, there is a reason Ayn Rand has been discredited. Its mostly because she, as you have, assumed that ‘someone else’ will pay for infrastructure and noone will miss the stuff you stole from the rest of us.
Requiring a car and insurance is simply the next logical step.
Heath @ 15
Ahhh… but MTR (the other Mark) doesn’t run the risk of being robbed for his pocket money, is not pinned against the window by the sweaty fat guy in the seat next to him and doesn’t have every one of this senses assaulted for the entire ride. He also doesn’t run the risk of having to spend the entire ride standing up like a subway sardine.
Mark@16–
But Mark, heath “likes” big, sweaty winos rubbing up against him. So does bill, with a small b and probably a small d too!
And besides that, heath & bill actually ARE the big, sweaty fat guys we all dread.
I sold my car over a year ago and I walk or bus it everywhere now. It’s been a liberating experience and I don’t miss my car at all. The bus to the airport is a helluva a lot easier than driving a lot of the time!
And redneck, righton, cynical, and all the other right wing NUTJOBS — I think of you filling up your SUVs as the gas keeps going up and up, and I smile to myself. You can vote down the gas tax, but you can’t keep the price of gas from climbing through the roof, a lot more than any piddling gas tax. It’s only a matter of time before you poor suckers won’t be able to afford to drive anymore.
Mark@16 –
You are hilarious. So scared to go out in public that you won’t ride a bus because some big guy might mug you. On the bus, of all places — where there are 5 videocameras.
*snort*
Oh, wait, you were probably already snorting something when you wrote that. ;)
Heath @ 18
I didn’t say that I was scared. I simply prefer not to be sweat-upon or to have my senses assaulted by the unwashed likes of you.
Video cameras??! Oh, MY! You had better call the ACLU!
Heath – Splain coupla things to me:
1) How do video cameras stop crime?
2) If I prefer to ride in comfort in my SUV, why is that any of your fucking business?
redneck,
1) What do you mean stop crime? Noone anywhere can stop crime, nor does the constitution allow you to do so. You only get to arrest people if they commit a crime. You might not like it, but this is a country called America and we have this document called a Constitution, and if you dont like it, get the fuck out.
2) You are the asshole who issued a challenge @7.
Hell, I’d like to see the busses no longer charge to ride. I don’t know the annual budget (Yeah, I’m sure I could look it up, but I’m too damn lazy) but I can imagine that it’s a pittance compared to the bucket loads of cash flushed down the toilet for light rail. Use my confiscated dollars where it would do some good, I say.
I used to ride the bus for almost 6 years. It’s not convenient anymore, so I got small, incredibly fuel inefficient car that goes fast and sounds cool. Besides, there’s nothing like the scent of old vomit coming from the heater vents on a cold day. That’s my favorite. It’s the warming action that activates the flavor crystals.
Hey Mark, I’m down to 12.8 MPG! Can your SUV beat that? I’m working on more ways to waste fuel. Like revving my engine at lights. An H2 beats me by about 2 gallons.
I hear the oil companies are in dire straits after Katrina, and I want to help out where I can.
Food – Shit, cost me almost 80 bucks yesterday when I filled up my luxury SUV. My mileage is a little higher than yours, but it sure is comfortable.
Have you seen those H3’s? Now those are cool. That good finkin rot there.
Yeah, I’m only at $50. I’m excited that it’ll be higher in the wake of Katrina. I’d be disappointed if I can’t pay over $3.00 a gallon. I lay awake at night, concerned that oil-men will not be able to buy socks for their kids, unless oil is above $100 a barrel. We can all do our part though. I wouldn’t want the CHINESE burning *my* oil, by God!
I test drove a friends H2. I couldn’t open the doors in my garage. It’s that damn big. The H3 is a bit more on scale. Lexus GX470 is good too, but only burns a disappointing 19 MPG City/22 Highway, if you feel like tossing 50k$+.
I figure most enviro’s have it all wrong. The faster we use up all the dead dinosaurs, the sooner we’ll have to use something else. Necessity IS the mother of invention.
No drilling in ANWR!! No war for oil! No drilling off FL, CA, LA, or TX! No new refineries!! No Nuoiles!! No wind mills off KennedyLand, MASS! 50 cent Al Gore tax on gasoline…………Oh, BTW, it’s bush’s fault gas in 3 bucks a gallon! [Democrats: stupid “progressive” dumb shits!]
Mark the Redneck–
I’m with you brother….
Besides if I get in a wreck, I want to be sure my vehicle wins!
When I drive my SUV and see one of those fucking little Prius’s with a Kuccinich sticker on it…..I’m almost hoping for a little contact.
Oh! bill, again…(@24)
What do you mean stop crime? Noone anywhere can stop crime, nor does the constitution allow you to do so. You might not like it, but this is a country called America and we have this document called a Constitution, and if you dont like it, get the fuck out.
Are you an idiot? Just thought I’d ask…
You say:
Noone anywhere can stop crime, nor does the constitution allow you to do so.
Man, I can’t imagine somebody sooo stoopid…(Oh, minus two)
You only get to arrest people if they commit a crime.
Here is your Bozo button: You get one when you know what you are talking about. Just to explain the rules: you also lose one when you don’t…
You are minus three. DOLT…
JCH @5,
I’m at the Alehouse now, and there is no 42-inch plasma behind the bar. There are a couple of 20-inch CRTs behind the bar, and a 50-inch rear projection out in the restaurant area. Which would you prefer?
Hey Mark the Redneck—
I’ll bet those LEFTIST PINHEADS (aka LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOTS) are all waiting around in the bushes peeking in the window of the Mountlake Ale House waiting until someone else buys the first pitcher of beer before they come in!!!
Most of them probably sip Peppermint Schnapps and other cordials, don’t you think???
They also get plenty nervous when a couple big dudes come walking in….fearing it is me and you! I’ll bet all these wimpy cocksuckers probably spent there entire Public School experience being bitch-slapped out of their lunch money by little girls!@!!
Mark…if you went in their and snorted at heath, he’d probably hand you his buspass for free???
Hey heath…does the Mountlake Ale House take food stamps???? If not, how can you afford a beer???
Goldy @31: Damn looters! They must have carted the plasma display away already. I think I saw them on CNN earlier pulling it off the wall.
Cynical @ 29 – Those prius’ with the kuccinich stickers… it’s almost like they’re ASKING for it… nowutimean?
@32 – I’m sure most of them were raised by single mothers, so they’ve never had a strong role model. They’re just skirts with dicks, and that’s why they “think” like they do.
Mark the Redneck–
Yup….you gottem purty well pegged brother.
Have you ever seen a cluster of those LEFTIST PINHEADS (LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOTS) get together in a bar and hoist there dainty little cordials in a toast to Michael Moore?? It’s downright pitiful.
And then when it’s time to leave (before dark), they get together for one of them group hugs. YUCK!!!
Then they slap each other on the fanny as they walk out the door…some kind of a commie ritual.
marks, Contrary to what the current administration keeps claiming, you can’t arrest people till they commit a crime. That is embedded in amendments 4, 5, and 6. And you wonder why people keep calling you a fascist?
In other news, yet another brain dead wingnut mouths off and says nothing but that they don’t like the world.
Realize this is why people keep calling you a traitor. Its cause you are and keep spitting on the Constitution.
Hey cynical, go die, ok?
Hey, its 830; what bus do i take to get mugged? Really, any bus?
I’ve actually tried taking bus to/fro the airport. a) it takes more work to figure out that bus than it did to book the flight to Narita, b) even if they adequately took my suitcase i figure that when they are late on routes in my neighborhood, heaven help me on a 20 mile long route.
For all you commies, every foreign country i visit has adequate bus or train at the airport, oops, except for ours. And I take them;
Wow, the two of you (cynical and redneck) should really get a room. I mean since you neither one have a brain or actually say anything.
Wow, what a concept, righton can’t figure out how to read a fucking bus schedule. Is that a shock or what?
A buddy of mine has 8 Prius stickers on the side of his Escalade. You know what those mean don’t ya??? We call him The Bloody Red Baron! By the time one of those little Prius driving pussy’s see him haulin’ ass gainin’ on his sorry butt at 90 miles per hour….it’s already too late!
Hell when this guy has a Prius in his sites at 90 MPH, he’s rollin’ down the damn window stickin another Prius sticker on the side of his fine SUV about 15 seconds BEFORE impact!
Impressive, huh Mark?
bill you dickhead,
Contrary to what the current administration keeps claiming, you can’t arrest people till they commit a crime.
Oh, mon frer, you are so right…
Never mind that you are an idiot.
See, thats the wingnut assholes weve all come to expect, you say something asinine and stupid, so you call the person who catches you a dickhead and and idiot.
Don’t worry marks, everyone saw you spit on the Constitution. We all know you are a slimy dirtbag.
Course we all know you will say the same damn thing tomorrow and the day after than. And you will still be a traitor tomorrow and the day after when you advocate arresting people before they commit a crime.
And to forstall your kneejerk response of ‘when did i say that’ that you are about to say, realize that everyone can just scroll up dumbshit.
marks–
bill drives a beater Volvo with a Prius engine….Kuccinich bumber sticker and another one that says WILL SING FOR WEED.
bill has no job and sells his food stamps to buy reefer while his kids are starving with no father.
Bill wears a tie-dye t-shirt, Birkenstocks and cut-off blue jeans with a huge hole and his left ass-cheek hanging out.
You need to understand who you are berating here.
Some asshole who missed the 60’s and is trying to live them now.
bill is an angry white guy who wishes he were some other color so he could have an excuse for being a jobless drain on society.
Goldy, who will pay your bar tab, and will you tip? Hillary would just walk and stiff the waiter, then deny, deny, deny. BTW, Sorry you didn’t get your “free plasma Sony”. Looks like Maxine Waters [et al] was there before you!
Goldy, you pencil necked dick………..POST my responses, or belay the cheap shots. Pussy can dish out crap, but “filters” incoming. [Hillary NEEDS you!!]
bill, bill, bill,
At some point, you will make a point…but evidently, not yet…
I have a saying… it goes like this…
Don’t you love nature? Don’t you love this sound?.
When you figure life out, let me know. I would be surprised…
Wrong one @ 37
Get a clue!
marks@43
bill is a perfect candidate for http://www.shantimai.com
bill is one of those NEW AGE PROGRESSIVE LEFTIST PINHEADS (aka LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOTS)….Shanti can heal and guide poor bill with a little b
bill–
If you have any doubts, please visit http://www.shantimai.com and look at the testimonials. They are exactly what people of your ilk live on!
Mark the Acknowledged Dumbass and self-proclaimed Redneck:
1) How do video cameras stop crime?
Do I need to spell everything out for you? My god!
Video cameras stop crime by making it more difficult to get away with crime. By reducing the expected benefit, they alter the cost-benefit calculation such that crime is displaced — either to not occur, or occur elsewhere. Such as not on the bus, where there are videocameras everywhere.
2) If I prefer to ride in comfort in my SUV, why is that any of your fucking business?
Good question.
First, let’s get this clear: If you want to buy an SUV and not drive it, that’s your problem and your business.
If you want to drive an SUV, though, that’s my business.
For one thing, my high school friends are risking their lives securing oil for us, and you are wasting that oil by driving your extravagant and hedonistic vehicle.
Then there’s the air we both breathe and the global warming that you probably deny exists.
But we’re done. As long as we fight wars over oil, fat-ass resource leeches who drive SUVs are everybody’s business, not just mine.
Mark@27 – Anybody who admires and H2 or H3 has something to compensate for, again. The H1 had portal axles, at least there was some reasoning behind it. The follow-ons are just big for the sake of making up for something small.
“No offense.”
heath–
I have been watching the obviously racist coverage of the looting in New Orleans by CNN, ABC, NBC & CBS. All they showed was black people looting. Can you imagine that? The MSM is either racist…or tried as hard as they could and couldn’t find a single white looter.
PS to heath–
There were literally thousands of video cameras covering the looting in New Orleans. Many of the looters actually waved, smiled and said Hi Mom to the video cameras. I guess heath’s theory about video cameras stopping crime is exactly 180 degrees off as usual. It appears from the videos, that these cameras actually ENCOURAGE crime.
heath–you are a fucking idiot!
That is the typical LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOT outlook on life. Do as I say….not as I do. -Comment by Mr. Cynical— 8/30/05 @ 3:53 pm
Hey Mark the Redneck—
I’ll bet those LEFTIST PINHEADS (aka LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOTS) are all waiting around in the bushes peeking in the window of the Mountlake Ale House waiting until someone else buys the first pitcher of beer before they come in!!! -Comment by Mr. Cynical— 8/30/05 @ 7:58 pm
bill is one of those NEW AGE PROGRESSIVE LEFTIST PINHEADS (aka LENIN’s USEFUL IDIOTS)….Shanti can heal and guide poor bill with a little b -Comment by Mr. Cynical— 8/30/05 @ 10:42 pm
Cynical, A gentleman and right thinker of like mind…
” “Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”
–Benjamin Rush
V.I. Lenin called Western Leftists who sided with Socialists in political debates “useful idiots.” He’s been dead for 81 years, but there appears to be no shortage of Michael Mooronic idiots lending aid and comfort to those seeking to destroy the “beacon of liberty” today….
@8
“Be sure to let us know how you like the guy with the green hair”
It’s time to tell the parrot joke again!!
A motorist waiting for a red light in the U District observed a punker with a mohawk dyed red, blue, and green loitering on the sidewalk.
The punker, noticig the motorist was looking at him, instantly became belligerent. “What are you staring at?!” he screamed.
“Oh nothing,” the motorist said. “I fucked a parrot 20 years ago and wondered if you’re my son.”
Hey Mark the Redneck you should get rid of that piece of foreign junk and drive American iron. Your car is unpatriotic, and so are you.
I have a question, how come we don’t have gas rationing since we’re at war, the military is using a lot of fuel, and there isn’t enough gas at reasonable prices to go around? I’d love to see MTR tearing coupons out of his ration book and calculating in his head how far he can get on 20 gallons a month.
52 – We do have rationing. It’s called pricing…. ya know… free markets. It allocates resources perfectly.
Heath – Cynical did a good job splaining how cameras don’t do shit to prevent crime. Are you that fucking stupid that you needed to be told that?
“You and your high school friends…” that explains why you’re a liberal… at least you have an excuse for childish politics. The others around here don’t.
Let me explain something you asshole. It’s none of your fucking business what I drive. Who the fuck are you to decide what I can and can’t drive? Is my home too big too? Do I make too much money? What else do you think I shouldn’t have?
I don’t know if global warming is happening or not, but I SAS do know that my SUV isn’t the cause of it if it is happening. Did you see where scientists have observed global warming on Mars? No SUVs there. They’re working on the theory that maybe THE SUN causes global warming.
Bill;
How come i can figure out bus schedules in Frankfurt, Kyoto, plenty of cities “where they don’t speak english” but cannot get an easy read of the routes near my house and how to get to the airport. The answer is our bus system isn’t for me or other car owners; its designed by bureaucrats, deeply subsidized, used mostly by people with no choice, so they don’t have to innovate.
How come its easier to figure out a flight to Abu Dhabi than it is to get a bus from Fremont to Burien?
So how many of you rode the bus to DL? Heath said he would, but then disclosed later that he’s still in high school, so that was bullshit. Did anybody else? Or are you all a bunch of hypocrite assholes?
Also, how many “War Is Terrorism” bumper stickers did you see?
Hey moonbats – More bad news. WA AG office did an investigation of gas prices and found that oil companies ARE NOT in collusion and ARE NOT gouging us. There are actual market economic factors at work. Google Washington AG office and read it.
righton, I am not really sure. Brain damage maybe? At any rate, if your mommy is still sleeping and can’t help you, try Metro Online. I have take busses to every part of this city and no, it is not all that complicated to get anywhere.
Oh, and yes I do have a choice. I choose to not drive, mostly because I hate driving. Sold my car 6 years ago and have been much happier for it.
Realize in any city, if you are taking a bus from a major point of arrival like an airport and going to a major area with hotels or attractions, it is always going to be easier to use the bus. Its when you try to go to outlying areas that things get difficult. Hell Seattle has three different busses that run from the airport to downtown roughly every half hour. Monkeys can find those busses.
I will say this, if you are going to bitch about taxes paying for busses and/or work toward eliminating funding for metro, you really don’t get to complain about the fact that the bus to your neighborhood is not close to your front door. The government is paying a whole lot more for that service in Frankfurt and in Kyoto.
You want better busses, fine step up and increase their funding. Personally, I find the current balance just fine.
@56 I assume that you were hoping that nobody would actually *read* the report, so you could leave your distorted view of what it says in place…
http://www.atg.wa.gov/consumer.....port.shtml
no mention of collusion at all, positive or negative.
also, 2 words: “record Profits”
[Drink up, “progressives”, and enjoy the news!!!]
The husband of an Illinois congresswoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee so he could use the money to pay a bill. Robert Creamer, a political consultant married to four-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts when he is sentenced Dec. 21.
Comments:
I realize there are far more important stories in the news today, but this one put a smile on my face and I wanted to share it.
Bill;
We are taxed sufficiently for better transit. Why do you guys always respond with underfunded? And yeah, i’m aware most foreign countries have larger subsidies of transit.
But yeah, I can figure out Metro online, sort of. And their mini app for moving bus is cool.
But how come its a random event when I go to catch a bus? Schedule says 7:28am, i arrive 5 min early, but is 15 min late. So for a 20 min car ride, i wasted 20 min just on the “bad schedule” side.
And just in Paris, where all bus stops show current bus schedule real time on monitors… wow. And i wasn’t on a tourist bus, i was figuring this stuff out on my own.
I even call Metro, and say, ‘hey, i’m near the Kirkland park and ride (making location up), what bus do i need to get downtown seattle.?”… instead of saying, at 1030 take bus 123, they tell me there are plenty of buses, pick anyone.. yeah right.
So why is NY, Paris, Moscow or Kyoto easier for me than Seattle?
Cynical@49 –
You’re making a dishonest argument again — comparing news cameras in a city wiped out by a hurricane to surveilance cameras on a bus where there are plenty of cops around.
Dumb ass.
53
You’re a fucking idiot, Mark! The purpose of “rationing” is so scarce goods DON’T get rationed by market pricing.
56
What do you expect from a Republican AG?
righton, you answered your own question. ” i’m aware most foreign countries have larger subsidies of transit.” If those countries transit systems have more cash, of course they would have more unnecessary bells and whistles.
I think that I would really disagree with your assesment that we pay enough for better stuff. We pay enough for what we have. As I said personnally, I don’t think any more is required. I would challenge you to back that statement up and demonstrate how metro is wasting money.
I take the same bus in to work every morning. It comes within a 2 minute window every morning. I will note that if your bus comes regulary a specific amout of time ‘passed due’ thats probably because you are looking at a time for the nearest time point, not for your specific stop.
Realtime monitors at bus stops are a luxury, I really don’t want to think about paying for, myself. In addition, do you really think they would stay there long? At the beginning of most schedule cycles Metro puts new schedules at most bus stops and some jerk breaks the window and destroys it. I am guessing that monitors would not fare well.
However if you really want a realtime monitor, try busview.
All that being said, I guess I have to eat crow. Metro working with UW is working on setting up monitors at some bus stops. Now that is a waste of money.
bill;
Naw, I could call it waste, I could also call it engineer/production oriented service, which is different than customer oriented. I’ve tried 20x in last year, and not once did bus show on time (within 5 min).
Stop the insults; i’m at exact stop, on time. Its a joke, especially when my car is so nice.
You guys deny reality when you think people with very nice and “on time” cars will endure a bus just to “be good”. I’m about the only right winger who tries and man its bad.
ps, they ought to have the airport bus be slightly better, special. Run it from big Park and Rides. Let it run right to the airline, not the end concourse.
Are you going to ride the Sound Transit bus/shuttle “slow boat to china” when it comes out?
As for Parisiens not breaking the terminals, but we will, what’s up with that?
Sorry, no insult intended, but look at the map on a schedule some time. There are spots marked with a T. All the times listed are at those spots. If you are not at one of those points your time listed is at the one before your stop. So if the bus is always 10 min late, thats because you are 10 minutes from a time point.
I am not sure where it is, but on that Metro website there is a place for comments and suggestions (I haven’t looked in a while). They actually pay attention to them. They also are always looking for folks to join the boards that decide where busses run.
I do know that metro is not set up for casual travel. Rather its set up for commuting to and from work.
Dude, I am sooo waiting for the train. It will cut my commute time way down.
Oh, and regarding Pariseans not breaking things. Dunno, the world sucks I guess. I have noticed that those doing the breaking are generally not riding; they all share your low opinion of Metro (no other similarity implied). Plus they are the ones who keep leaving grafiti all over the damn place.
Just an observation, but I think you can safely eliminate them as members of either the liberal or conservative groups of people. In my opinion they are pretty much sub human and have no interest in any politics beyond who is the next leader of their gang.
Wabbit @ 69 – The ONLY intelligent way to ration is through pricing. Any other way ends up being a political decision. There is NO WAY that a central planner has access to the same information that a competitive market has. Can’t be done.
You’re really a closet grouchoandharpoist, but you can’t bring yourself to say it can you?
Bill the schedule man.
Again, at the stop, w/ the t, all that crap, its still late (mind you its sound transit buses chiefly).
Maybe I need to visit Bangladesh or somewhere, My expectations set by anal retentive German/swiss/japanese/french bus drivers.
Don’t you guys ever wonder how urban transit might change if some hustling entrepreneurs got involved, somehow busted their tails to get our business? Why do you think we overpay for coffee at starbucks, or pay gobs of money for nice dinners? Its called competition, customer focused.
ps, i’ve used their website. Metro, Sound transit is about mass transit, not about rapid or individually usefull. So instead I, and lots of us, get great cars from the competing efforts of 20 different car companies, and yeah, stil have to endure shared roads. But heck, still better than the bus. My car is 100% on-time (that is, it leaves the house when i do)
Sorry again, I have very little experience with Sound Transit busses, I am entirely in Metro.
I think I am probably going to shock you, but I actually agree, transit systems were generally private companies before somewhere in the mid-sixties, and generally made a profit.
I think that transit becoming public coincided with increased ownership of cars. Transit less and less became a luxury and more and more began to replace the right of way that got stolen over and over by installation of interstate highway systems.
I think turning it loose as happened with the US Postal service would probably be a good idea.
I also think destroying all roadways inside the city limits would be a good plan. As a nation, we all could use a little more walking, but I know thats never going to happen.
You actually drink Starbucks? Have Tully’s once in a while.