YAY more transit options - no driving necessary. Safety stuff will evolve, we need to do our part as riders and report concerns. It is easier for cops, in a way, to handle Train safety because there is NO getting off until the Next Stop, for the bad guy, so the cops just wait there and Squee-gee the jerk out of the cabin.
Mike gave a pretty good assessment of what's going on with light rail construction on the I90 bridge. I know there's some doubters, since it's never been done before. But hopefully those doubts will cease once its open and running without problems.
Traffic will most likely never improve due to Light Rail. There’s nothing to be done about that other than potentially tolling the roads to discourage travel at certain hours. Highway expansion not really geographically, politically or economically possible. Light rail does however enable future land use and commuting patterns that will make our highways’ inevitable March toward constant gridlock a little bit slower, and also more avoidable (by using the light rail).
Traffic congestion will never be solved because equilibrium will happen. If most people caught public transport then the roads will be free flowing therefore it will be faster to drive. As a result of that people will choose to drive again. However when the roads get so congested some people will choose to catch public transport. So had the end of the day, an equilibrium will be reached.
They built the wrong system. Light rail is not supposed to be stretched so far because it is too slow and doesn't carry enough volume. The right system would have been heavy rail/metro instead of a super slow light rail.
@@tc3693 and it does not reach that because of turns, stops, and track conditions in 90% for the line. Just about the only places is the straight separated sections which are few and far between. Wrong system. Wrong track. Wrong length.
@@walawala-fo7ds most of the system is underground straight aways or elevated straightaways. It reaches 50mph + between most stops north of downtown. It also runs 4 car trains which is pretty solid capacity.
@@tc3693 the system is not mostly underground at all lol. Just the downtown to Northgate. The only part that it reaches top speed undergroud is Capitol Hill to u district. All other stations are too close or on curved tracks.
@@walawala-fo7ds that’s about 50% of the system and the rest after the few surface level stations near Rainier beach are on elevated trackway. Most North American heavy rail networks aside from BART don’t consistently go 55+ anyway. Grade separation, train only ride of way, and frequency are the most important parts of a rail system. The rolling stock in this case doesn’t negatively impact the system very much especially because all future expansions maintain grade separation or minimize surface crossing/have priority train signals at those intersections.
The person who replied first here is right. Our road network is overbuilt, and provides so little compared to what has already been built with the rail lines both inside and outside of Seattle. Honestly, Sound Transit deserves all of its funding and perhaps quite a bit more for what it is doing to revise the way we get around this massive metroplex we live in. And quite honestly, I would much rather ride public transit on my daily commute to work, and be able to read a book, write, or just breathe without worrying about some road-raging asshat in the lane next to me. We lose so much time to these roads, and I would love to claw some of it back.
You are part of a society and you don't really get a say in everything about where your taxes go. That's why we vote people into office. Also, adding more lanes never has helped reduce congestion. More people on the trains is better for everyone... even those sitting in cars on the freeway... because there should be fewer cars there. Give me public transit any day!
YAY more transit options - no driving necessary. Safety stuff will evolve, we need to do our part as riders and report concerns. It is easier for cops, in a way, to handle Train safety because there is NO getting off until the Next Stop, for the bad guy, so the cops just wait there and Squee-gee the jerk out of the cabin.
"safety stuff will evolve" lmao. yeah, right, like it "evolved" in seattle. crime central.
Mike gave a pretty good assessment of what's going on with light rail construction on the I90 bridge. I know there's some doubters, since it's never been done before. But hopefully those doubts will cease once its open and running without problems.
Renton is left out of the loop and pays taxes for light rail. Renton is the armpit of King County.
the poor pay taxes, the rich get benefits. America.
New BRT line
Federal Way extension is also opening in 2026
AND STILL TRAFFIC IS SOO BAD
Traffic will most likely never improve due to Light Rail. There’s nothing to be done about that other than potentially tolling the roads to discourage travel at certain hours. Highway expansion not really geographically, politically or economically possible. Light rail does however enable future land use and commuting patterns that will make our highways’ inevitable March toward constant gridlock a little bit slower, and also more avoidable (by using the light rail).
Traffic congestion will never be solved because equilibrium will happen. If most people caught public transport then the roads will be free flowing therefore it will be faster to drive. As a result of that people will choose to drive again. However when the roads get so congested some people will choose to catch public transport. So had the end of the day, an equilibrium will be reached.
@striatic it reads as ai. I can't honestly believe we never became independent
@@SeanJoseW What reads as AI?
They built the wrong system. Light rail is not supposed to be stretched so far because it is too slow and doesn't carry enough volume. The right system would have been heavy rail/metro instead of a super slow light rail.
Light rail can go 55-60 mph on these systems which are fully grade separated for 90% of the system
@@tc3693 and it does not reach that because of turns, stops, and track conditions in 90% for the line. Just about the only places is the straight separated sections which are few and far between. Wrong system. Wrong track. Wrong length.
@@walawala-fo7ds most of the system is underground straight aways or elevated straightaways. It reaches 50mph + between most stops north of downtown. It also runs 4 car trains which is pretty solid capacity.
@@tc3693 the system is not mostly underground at all lol. Just the downtown to Northgate. The only part that it reaches top speed undergroud is Capitol Hill to u district. All other stations are too close or on curved tracks.
@@walawala-fo7ds that’s about 50% of the system and the rest after the few surface level stations near Rainier beach are on elevated trackway. Most North American heavy rail networks aside from BART don’t consistently go 55+ anyway. Grade separation, train only ride of way, and frequency are the most important parts of a rail system. The rolling stock in this case doesn’t negatively impact the system very much especially because all future expansions maintain grade separation or minimize surface crossing/have priority train signals at those intersections.
Money that funds this is taken from me without my consent or vote. I would vote to add more and better roadways for me to commute and travel.
Those roads will do more for you with more people on the train. Building more roads can only do so much.
The person who replied first here is right. Our road network is overbuilt, and provides so little compared to what has already been built with the rail lines both inside and outside of Seattle. Honestly, Sound Transit deserves all of its funding and perhaps quite a bit more for what it is doing to revise the way we get around this massive metroplex we live in. And quite honestly, I would much rather ride public transit on my daily commute to work, and be able to read a book, write, or just breathe without worrying about some road-raging asshat in the lane next to me. We lose so much time to these roads, and I would love to claw some of it back.
You are part of a society and you don't really get a say in everything about where your taxes go. That's why we vote people into office. Also, adding more lanes never has helped reduce congestion. More people on the trains is better for everyone... even those sitting in cars on the freeway... because there should be fewer cars there. Give me public transit any day!
@@EricaGamet OK Comrade
@@dresmedeus More time to read a little Marx?