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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 09:44:52 No.2049487 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2049492 >>2049570 >>2049962 >>2050098

Need it or keep it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 13:08:48 No.2049492 Report

Quoted By: >>2049494 >>2049500 >>2049538 >>2049596 >>2050080

>>2049487
why are people allergic to building subway lines?? so far this century we've got miami airport line, second ave subway, and tren urbano lmao. is that really it? meanwhile there's been like 20 new light rail lines and I guess the wmata and bart extensions

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 13:25:20 No.2049494 Report

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>>2049492
Digging is expensive, and a lot of big cities are too flood-prone for tunnels filled with electronics to make economic sense. Meanwhile, you just slap a couple tracks on the street and you have a new light rail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 13:55:19 No.2049496 Report

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>>2049494
yet many of these light rail systems have tunneled sections; miami system is fully elevated to avoid water issues. I guess I should clarify I mean subway in the american usage meaning heavy rail metro regardless of height relative to ground level. nyc subway is iconic for it's elevateds after all. and none of this is cheap, look at the new hawaii system or the pittsburgh north shore connector. as for just slapping tracks on the street, yeah there are way too many useless new streetcars

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 15:05:02 No.2049500 Report

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>>2049492
Why would you need a subway line in American cities which have such low density? Better build LRT and make it more extensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 21:47:28 No.2049534 Report

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>>2049500
sunbelt cities are fucked by density to the point where anything built will get no ridership until there is a comprehensive network. but ny dc chicago miami could easily support multiple new subway lines, and I'd argue seattle, msp, and la would have been served better by a subway system instead of light rail

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 22:42:09 No.2049538 Report

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>>2049492
Well we are on the ring of fire in WA, and getting ST-3 built at all has been a major challenge due to funding and legal issues. I imagine a subway would have made it even harder. Major tunnel projects around Seattle have been shitshows as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jul 2025 07:30:19 No.2049570 Report

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>>2049487
It's cool. I rode it a few times while living in Federal Way years ago.
I'm looking forward to riding across the floating bridge on the Link when they've finally finished that section. Pretty neat knowing it will be the first of its kind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jul 2025 15:34:49 No.2049596 Report

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>>2049492
heavy rail gives me the ick
light rail is much more healthy, eco friendly and nice because 1) it's light 2) it reminds me of European trams
subways are ugly, loud and scary

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Jul 2025 18:49:20 No.2049962 Report

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>>2049487
Well if you needed it you'd keep it, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Jul 2025 19:07:45 No.2050080 Report

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>>2049492
I had a look at this Seattle line and it seems almost entirely grade separated, but it has a couple sections that run in the middle of a street. I guess that's the benefit, in a tight spot you can just have it on a street like a tram which makes it slightly cheaper and easier to construct

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Anonymous Tue 29 Jul 2025 21:12:14 No.2050088 Report

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>>2049596
>heavy rail gives me the ick
>light rail is much more healthy, eco friendly and nice because 1) it's light 2) it reminds me of European trams
>subways are ugly, loud and scary
I know you are playing the straw man, but I still wanted to reach through my computer screen and strangle you.
Good job, I guess.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 00:17:39 No.2050098 Report

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>>2049487
What Link looks like right now

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 00:18:44 No.2050099 Report

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>>2050098
What it's supposed to look like in 19 years (probably more like 25-30)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 02:54:52 No.2050111 Report

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>>2050099
So the most important station will be Chinatown? What's the area like? Offices?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 04:15:17 No.2050116 Report

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>>2050111
It's just south of downtown. That place has been a transit hub forever.

The clock tower on the left side of the pic is King Street Station for Sounder and Amtrak. Left/middle is Union Station, which is unused right now. The green archways middle/right mark the Chinatown entrance down to the transit tunnel for Link.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 14:52:40 No.2050137 Report

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Anyone here live in Seattle? I’m moving there next month to look for a job, bike life is getting tiresome. No experience/work history/college but I don’t drink or smoke and i’m 30 so i can still work. any tips on where to go to find some work where my noble steel steed wont get stolen by fentfiends?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 15:19:39 No.2050138 Report

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>>2050116
So the Link station is right next to Union Station, but they didn't name the Link station "Union Station"?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jul 2025 16:30:18 No.2050143 Report

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>>2050137
>where my noble steel steed wont get stolen by fentfiends?
Good luck. My sister took some classes at UW for a few months and they cut through her bike chain and stole her bike.
>>2050138
It's being discussed to use Union station for a different stop in the future. The transit tunnel was built for buses originally and then converted for light rail. When you go up stairs, one of the first things you see is the pic.

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jul 2025 11:11:25 No.2050199 Report

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>>2049596
>subways are ugly, loud and scary
Pussy

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Anonymous Fri 08 Aug 2025 01:19:57 No.2050803 Report

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>>2050080
>but it has a couple sections that run in the middle of a street
Where the poors live.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Aug 2025 01:21:52 No.2050804 Report

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>>2050111
>What's the area like? Offices?
Fent dealers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Aug 2025 13:10:33 No.2051006 Report

Quoted By: >>2051334

>>2050080
>>2050803
How many miles is the at-grade section?
Should they just build a new viaduct?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 15 Aug 2025 01:48:15 No.2051334 Report

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>>2051006
>How many miles is the at-grade section?
About 4 to 5 miles along Rainier Valley (the poor neighborhood). But they put a one mile section at grade in Bellevue (light industrial zone in a wealthy town).

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Anonymous Fri 15 Aug 2025 04:33:51 No.2051343 Report

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>>2050098
The Redmond section layout turned out kinda dumb. It does a U-turn around into downtown from the other direction, which makes it hard to ever lengthen the route if they want to go further east. There's a pretty big business park in Redmond Ridge, SpaceX has an office and factory there... it would have made sense to extend the line up that way.

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Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 01:05:20 No.2052143 Report

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>>2050143
For a few years they even had buses and light rail both using the transit tunnel, but now it's exclusively for light rail.

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