Podcast – Seattle Transit Blog

Bruce Nourish joins me to discuss a bunch of stuff.

• (0:00) Hot takes on the election; we basically agree on all issues and then vote in opposite ways. Warning: we go way off-topic beyond transit and land use, to where we probably know less than you do. So skip ahead if this will just irritate you.
• (32:15) On STB’s long hiatus this year
• (35:10) Transit advocacy and journalism in 2021 (Katie Wilson’s fares op-ed)
• (46:00) Martin and Bruce’s pet issues going forward (Martin’s misinterpreted legislative agenda piece)

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Author and journalist Matthew Yglesias joins us to discuss his book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.

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• North Seattle Metro / Link restructures
• Lamenting Link frequency (10:54)
• Collapse is a choice (18:28)
• Reconnect West Seattle (25:29)
  Bellevue I-405 (39:26)
• Mt. Rainier bus ideas (44:37)

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• Seattle TBD goes to the ballot
• County TBD?(18:35)
• West Seattle options (20:46)
• Bremerton BRT (31:26)
• 130th & 145th St station plans (40:07)

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• Seattle TBD renewal
• Metro drivers (17:35)
• Maximizing ridership (22:57)
• HALA (35:50)
• Gig car share (50:40)

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• East-west passenger rail
• Center city connector on pause (11:44)
• Jump bikes (15:16)
• Opening streets (24:46)
• Community Transit and Everett Transit (31:50)
• Metro cuts (37:35)

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• Swift’s Link connection
• Recovery fare (14:21)
• CDC’s questionable transit advice (21:55)
• ST’s revenue shortfall (27:12)
• Passenger ferries (34:08)
• Tacoma Dome Link (35:49)

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• Sounder North
• Tacoma BRT (13:40)
• No really, Tacoma BRT (31:30)
• Uber + Lime quasi-merger (43:25)
• Huzzah for safe streets (57:15)

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• Parking garages and opportunity cost
• ST3 cuts (17:00)
• Future metro ridership (25:56)
• West Seattle bridge (34:19)
• Musings on a work-from-home future (42:07)

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(Apologies for the audio quality on this one. We had an unexpected gear change before recording.)

We take questions from the reader mailbag.

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