One of the features of redeveloping the Bel-Red corridor will be the addition of a new street grid in place of what is now a broken network of backroads and lightly used collectors. The City of Bellevue is planning to establish a new central thoroughfare, which by current grid orientation, is tentatively designated NE 15th/16th [...]
About six months ago, I wrote about the Uptown-Belltown Transit Project, an SDOT project to improve the bus interface between Belltown and Uptown. As I discussed and diagrammed in that post, all buses to or from Queen Anne, Magnolia or Ballard (via Interbay) must, in the outbound direction, traverse an awkward and time-consuming jog between [...]
Washington is updating its State Rail Plan, its investment plan for capital projects and operating arrangements with neighboring jurisdictions. On October 31st, there’s a public workshop for interested parties in Seattle, from 9am to noon. You can find out exactly where by RSVPing to Kerri Woehler at 360-705-6902 or Kerri.Woehler@wsdot.wa.gov.
One frequent open-thread discussion is the merits of Lynnwood as a destination for rail. I certainly agree that it shouldn’t be the highest priority for rail in the region, although perhaps it should be the highest rail priority in Snohomish County. That’s where the money is coming from and by law must be spent. Although [...]
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: 28 October , 2012 Neoteric Hovercraft in Russia Neoteric is proud to have dealers , distributors and referring agents in more than fifteen nations advocating the use of the Hovertrek for rescue , recreational , commercial and military purposes . Christy Hovercraft IVL Design our agent in the Russian Federation , has been especially active in promoting . Neoteric Recently , Christy Hovercraft participated in an international conference exhibition held in Russia by EMERCON , the Chief Department of the Russian Emergency Services Ministry . EMERCON manages all civil defense and search and rescue operations in Russia . A focus of the event was the study of Russian and international experience in search and rescue operations using high-performance hovercraft , with an emphasis on their
[UPDATE: To be clear, the Seattle MSA includes the entirety of Snohomish, Pierce, and King Counties. Below, I argue that the considerable hinterlands in that sample aren't of much relevance, but that's the scope.] The traditional measure of density isn’t very informative about whether a city can really support heavy transit use and gain the other [...]
Martin surreptitiously dropped in a link to last week’s roundup detailing the results of a survey (PDF) that Bellevue administered as part of its Transit Master Plan update. The findings are worth digging into, because they reveal quite a bit about the current state of transit in the city from a riders perspective, and what strides [...]
by MATT JOHNSON Thanks to John Niles over at PITF for the numbers. As a transit advocate improving ridership is always great news. What jumps out to me though is the extent to which Link’s current rate of ridership growth is exceeding prior estimates. The typical trajectory of transit projects of this kind is massive [...]
There’s been lots of coverage lately about Sounder North’s poor ridership, but not much attention paid to the transit alternative many riders are choosing instead, namely Sound Transit’s freeway-running I-5 express buses, 510, 511, 512 and 513. These routes, as the Sounder North Citizen Oversight Panel report notes, are currently overcrowded in the peaks, with [...]
Roughly three weeks ago WSDOT completed the required Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Point Defiance Bypass (PDB). You can wade through the full 1,500 pages if you dare, but to the casual reader I would suggest the concise Executive Summary. For those unfamiliar with the project, a small sampling of 4 years of STB coverage can be found here, here, here, and [...]
Recently, the Economist published an article that highlights a relatively unexplored explanation for the difference in per-person GDP between the US and Western Europe nations. Differences in metropolitan populations may help explain gaps in productivity and incomes. Western Europe’s per-person GDP is 72% of America’s, on a purchasing-power-parity basis. A recent study by the McKinsey [...]
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: 21 October , 2012 Award-winning scientist assists Neoteric Hovercraft Today , Neoteric Hovercraft was honored with a visit by Dr . Rajpal Sirohi , a world-famous physicist , and his son , Dr . Jayant Sirohi , an award-winning aerospace engineer . Dr . Jayant Sirohi has offered to assist Neoteric in conducting advanced computer modeling of the complex aerodynamics found in the Hovertrek’s integrated lift thrust . ducting Below , Dr . Jayant Sirohi left studies the thrust duct outlet flow of a Hovertrek at the Neoteric factory , and indicates the onset of turbulence to company President Chris Fitzgerald center and Dr . Rajpal Sirohi right Neoteric founder Chris Fitzgerald has enjoyed a long friendship with Dr . Rajpal Sirohi . In the 1980s , when Fitzgerald was Rose-Hulman Institute’s
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