@future42org@jakeskorheim You statistically can’t compare these cities as Seattle is orders of magnitude larger than Bellevue. Seattle is what Bellevue would look like if 800,000 people lived there.
@WA_CommonSense@jakeskorheim@SoundTransit It’s only “obsolete” because luddites with an outsized say have fought it in this region for half a century. The Seattle metro area is actually pretty dense. Look at Seattle proper, it’s an isthmus. Further congesting our roads doesn’t solve anything.
@steakaholic@jakeskorheim@SoundTransit We’re still sharing the road with autonomous vehicles and they still don’t have the capacity as rail/subways. Trains are not scary. If we had the same vision as the Asian transit systems, we’d be at maglev trains already
@ACMPHHS@jakeskorheim@jasonrantz@SoundTransit I don’t see a steam engine attached to light rail. By that logic, we’re using the internal combustion engine in our cars. A technology nearly as old. Some countries that actually care about proper efficient transit are using maglev trains.
@sexyfartbubble@Todd46359927111@jakeskorheim@jasonrantz@SoundTransit It would actually be efficient to have the trains be autonomous. We’d still share the road with autonomous busses and the carrying capacity of individual busses is less than trains/subways. The hyper futuristic transit systems in Asia are still using trains
@jakeskorheim@SoundTransit Probably the dumbest thing I’ve read all day. This is the price of playing catch up when we could have had this since the 70’s but our parents and grandparents (boomers again for the win) said no. We are now left with the stellar operation that is ST. At least they’re trying tho.