Ride the Eastside's new light rail line with Mike Lindblom
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- Seattle Times Traffic Lab reporter Mike Lindblom previews Sound Transit's 2 Line service between South Bellevue Station and Redmond Technology Station, two days before the grand opening.
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Could the reporter be any less enthused about public transit? Eight stations is nothing to sneeze at. Sure, it's not the full thing, but it makes sense, as Balducci said to not have to mothball the stations that were ready to go. They'd still have to do upkeep on the stations and all the tracks, so they might as well put them to use. Unfortunately, it means shorter trains over here is Seattle because of the lacking cross-lake portion... but by the time the connection opens, the light rail is going to be just that much more amazing to have!
"Yet Another Urbanist" just released a video about the route that covers it properly.
He’s a print reporter not a TeeVee “personality”.
there is a reason i've given 2 decades worth of ST subscriptions in donation dollars to The Urbanist. I see absolutely no reason to ever subscribe to the ST. If I want the NYT or WP I just subscribe to those services for national news with much higher journalistic standards.
1:40 You completely missed the part where it’s right next to the massive Bellevue Transit Center. Light rail isn’t the only mode of transport in this region. You can take a bus closer to the mall.
Better yet, you can walk!! I was amazed at walkable Downtown Bellevue was, west of the Freeway of course. Crossing the freeway though, I’ll take the train😅
@@mr.jellyfish5544 It is, yeah!
Actually I don't think there's a bus that goes from the transit center to Bellevue square. It's faster just to walk. Or you can take a Bellhop shuttle (it's free). Though we wouldn't have this problem to begin with if Kemper Freeman wasn't so anti transit and blocked the construction nearer to the mall...
@@maxamaxa194 Almost every express bus passes by it, but yeah you can use Circuit, I don’t recommend it though cause of the wait times for it
The stations look beautiful
Complaining about the location of the Downtown Bellevue station being away from Bellevue Square... well you can blame Kemper Freeman for that
Love the light rail
Right now the current 2 line will only have a ridership of up to 6,000 daily riders, which is due to the fact that its not fully complete, as the bridge to seattle is going through repairs. Once the bridge is Complete and the full line starts service, It's expected to go up to around 50,000 daily riders, maybe even more since the Link Light Rail tends to punch above its weight when it comes to ridership.
6,000 is still a lot
Yeah this guy really buries the lead there, seriously could they not find anyone with even a cursory interest in transit? Urbanist videos do it better justice.
How about we do the right thing and replace the empty parking garages occupying the most valuable land for commuters with much needed mixed commercial and housing.
While this is a great achievement, the city needs to upzone around the stations. Park and rides are still not sufficient to boosting housing or transit ridership
"This biggest question" is whether a 1,500 stall parking garage will be utilized? That garage should have been 300 apartments...
That’s probably one of the saddest aspects of Seattles system, which is the most aggressive form of transit expansion is in many areas, the line is hovering a highway and then the stations have the most valuable land covered with parking stalls. Not the most efficient way of ending car dependency.
It’s in the middle of a swamp.
The solution isn't either or but both... TOD with PAID parking. I'm more than OK with it being a half/half venture with PAID parking for people ditching their cars while transiting Seattle and half being set aside for high and medium density mixed use, mixed income developments that including offices, housing, retail, entertainment and sports uses combined...
I love Mike Lindblom’s reporting, but his strength is as a print reporter.
stoked!
In Canada we never describe transit as a novelty
Nope! It's a daily part of life for anyone in the biggest cities which of course is virtually everyone! Edmontonian here! Go Oilers! ;-)
If you are at Redmond Technology Station, I definitely suggest using the bridge, it's great
Portland transit user: those stations look really nice! I dream that one day we’ll have nicer looking platforms down here.
Hello, TOD! Aka Transit Oriented Development's! These should ALWAYS be built around light rail stations just like the old streetcar suburbs of yore... A central community gathering place and focal point. Also like Vancouver and Hong Kong highly lucrative for whomever build at or next to stations... Just make sure there is housing for ALL budgets and lifestyles, rich AND poor, young AND old, etc. NOT just exclusive condo cluster's for condo investors and renters/AirBnB's...
Once it goes all the watyto Redmond, I'll be using it.
As a visitor to Seattle (I don't live there) a severed line is useless to me. I can't see me ever riding it until it's connected to downtown Seattle. Tacoma also needs to be connected to downtown. 2035 is ridiculous. The same with Everett. Rail projects in the U.S. are constructed in geologic time. I'll probably be six feet under before this is finished.
woo hoo more public transit 🥳🥳🥳
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Subsidized ?
NYC built an amazing subway system which cannot be replicated today. I am sure this light rail system is going to be perceived the same in 30 years
Mmmm idk. Light rail has no where near the capacity of true metro like the Subway. In 30 years if Seattle keeps growing and densifiying everyone will wish they’d accepted the Great Society Metro back in the day
Thankfully the region had the foresight to build the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel 35 years ago ahead of rail, and still the best designed stations in the system
It can be replicated but just not in the USA at current labor prices. And I say that as a union supporter. What the industry needs is Boring Company like automation and electrification to speed along the build times and reduce the cost of tunnelling. Although to be fair they are affordable and fast virtually everywhere but cities with corruption issues which over-inflates the cost of most projects these days... Even on the contractor side... Believe me, where I live huge industrial design-build companies rule the corporate roost and it's lead to cost escalation and quality issues as bad as Seattle's... Most of the piers on the new line had to be reinforced or replaced prior to opening and the worst part was that the fatal flaws were only discovered about a week before opening day was planned... That set back the system by at least a year while defects were corrected...
@@jonw999999 Ditto for Edmonton which saved itself at least a two billion dollar price tag by constructing its Jasper Avenue/105 Avenue question mark shaped downtown loop in stages starting in 1978 and stopping in 2015 with 2 sections still not constructed.. But they could be ran with surface routing if demand warrants. Which it will soon since one stop missing is on a University campus (MacEwan my alma mater) and Railtown which was a patch-work redevelopment of CP rail lands with strip malls, pressboard walk up condo's and a few cheap stalinist style concrete blocks.. Not visually stunning but often the busiest part of downtown these days post COVID and Ice District which drew the rest of the traffic off of Jasper and the subway line beneath it...
@@oceanlnr9414I dont think that that is such a big problem. In Vienna, there is one metro line that has Lrv and its one of the most used lines, the vehicles have a capacity of 780 vs 840-880 people on normal subways, so not a big difference
Mike and Dominic are the last true reporters working for the Seattle Times.
I’m continually disappointed in how lame our light rail is and how few people it reaches. European cities had better subways like a hundred years ago.
lol the reporter is so not excited about reporting on this
also that woman that sits on Seattle Transit board calling that station/line a novelty lol
More housing less parking!!
This is going to look so stupid in a few years as this system grows. Feel free to delete this before then.
Train to nowhere 😢
Wow... high density Seattle where Vancouver kills your fantasies
It would be nice to concentrate on what the speaker is saying but was difficult with the ANNOYING MUSIC playing along with him. Not EVERYTHING needs music. (I'm a music teacher and professional musician)....don't bark back at me that I don't know anything about music.
SeattleTimes, This WOKE rag isn't worth using for fish wrap
Don't link up with Seattle... 😬
Can’t wait for it to connect to Seattle and then Bellevue having an influx of homeless❤
very funny
Not how that works bud. Also having functional public transportation decreases homelessness
Or maybe imagine the fact that people can live on the east side and commute in to Seattle proper for service jobs... and just maybe keep some folks away from the brink of homelessness. This is going to be an overall win for the whole region.
Bellevue doesn't have an inept criminal justice policy like Seattle does.
Great, but americans don't like public transportation
They like it when they go to Europe and see how good and convenient it can be. It's not public transport that's bad, it's the US implementation that's bad. Ask yourself who benefits from that and you'll find out who is lobbying against it.
They like it when its convenient for them. Where theres good fast clean reliable frequent service, it gets used. You aren't going to get anyone to ride a bus that comes hourly and takes 8 times as long to drive.