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Let me just say that my dislike for the stupid duck boat is matched ONLY by the damn SLUT. It's not a real transportation solution and the gaps in the SLUT tracks are so freaking large, it's a matter of time before it sucks up my tires and throws me from my bike.
But I love the Seahawks, so my irritation towards Paul Allen is always short lived. Sucks!
Stanglor
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:42 am
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laura wrote:
...the gaps in the SLUT ... are so freaking large, it's a matter of time before it sucks ... me ...
Meeeeowwwww...cat fight.
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Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:55 am
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Yay, another Seattle Monorail scale transportation solution. I can't tell you how many times I've needed to get from WLC to SLU...
The entire length of this track is within easy and fast biking distance. Why don't we just dump an automatic rental fleet of bikes downtown like in Barcelona or Lyon, France?
Also, I thought this was a harsh transition between paragraphs...
Quote:
The construction in the area was more than just inconvenient earlier this month. On Sept. 7, a dump truck from one of the construction projects in the area hit two bicyclists at Fuhrman Avenue East and Eastlake Avenue East, killing one of them.
"I love it," Clifton said of the construction noise. "I was getting too much sleep before."
laura
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:57 am
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Remington wrote:
The entire length of this track is within easy and fast biking distance. Why don't we just dump an automatic rental fleet of bikes downtown like in Barcelona or Lyon, France?
Exactly ... please go take Mayor Nickel's job.
Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:59 am
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laura wrote:
Remington wrote:
The entire length of this track is within easy and fast biking distance. Why don't we just dump an automatic rental fleet of bikes downtown like in Barcelona or Lyon, France?
Exactly ... please go take Mayor Nickel's job.
Someday, I'll win the lottery and make this happen myself. I just gotta start buying tickets...
MyNameIsJeff
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:01 am
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Oh my. This will go right up there with "Hey lets go eat DICKS." hurr hurr GET IT?!?!
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Foo
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:03 am
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Man, I used to live 1.5 blocks from Dicks. I eventually had to lay down a house rule that every goddamned Dick's double entendre had been done and that they were thereafter forbidden.
the dreaded ben
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:06 am
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Remington wrote:
The entire length of this track is within easy and fast biking distance. Why don't we just dump an automatic rental fleet of bikes downtown like in Barcelona or Lyon, France?
Someday, I'll win the lottery and make this happen myself. I just gotta start buying tickets...
Psh, Mayor of Seattle is a shitty job.
Take that million and start up that bike rental fleet as your own company. You'll do more for Seattle transportation that way than the last 5 mayors put together.
Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:11 am
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Foo wrote:
Remington wrote:
laura wrote:
Exactly ... please go take Mayor Nickel's job.
Someday, I'll win the lottery and make this happen myself. I just gotta start buying tickets...
Psh, Mayor of Seattle is a shitty job.
Take that million and start up that bike rental fleet as your own company. You'll do more for Seattle transportation that way than the last 5 mayors put together.
No, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Foo
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:17 am
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Remington wrote:
No, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Ah, I figured you were talking about buying the election Pa Kennedy style. (which gets style points, if not exactly the best plan in general)
Y'know all we have to do is convince Paul Allen that funding this thing would be a good vanity project for him and we'd be swimming in money, Richie Rich-style.
Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:20 am
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Foo wrote:
Y'know all we have to do is convince Paul Allen that funding this thing would be a good vanity project for him and we'd be swimming in money, Richie Rich-style.
We just have to make sure that he can ride a bike first, for maximum photo-op effectiveness. Er, wait, does anybody even expect to see him ride the SLUT when it opens?
Foo
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:23 am
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No, because he has the attention span of a meth-addicted gnat. He's already moved on to his next man-child project that the rest of us will have to deal with.
edit: and the juxtapositioning of Paul Allen, and the words riding and SLUT just made my brain start hurting really badly. Thanks Remy, thanks a lot.
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koos42
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:25 am
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Yeah, that was a really harsh transition...
As for rent-a-bikes that would be cool, but I think hella people are too big of pussies to rent bikes in the winter. The city should install those large metal bollards for cars that raise and lower into the ground. Establish a curfew for cars on smaller streets, leaving only HUGE arterials for the cars as well as some large communal parking structures.
I think the SLUT is a step in the right direction. They should have had it arc over to Queen Anne, then quickly extended it to the other side of Fremont Bridge, or take it over the Ballard Bridge (possible???). That way the SLUT could go past places where more people live.
Ballard should adopt a building code that makes it into a canaled, quaint, fo-european city. Large boxy buildings would have to be torn down (Fred Meyer, Mars Hill). That dutch bike shop would get really popular and people could be seen riding to the butcher, the bakkerij, and all the other winkels (shops, isn't that a cute word for shop?).
Fuck Seattle, I want to move to Holland...
langston
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:26 am
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Foo wrote:
Remington wrote:
laura wrote:
Exactly ... please go take Mayor Nickel's job.
Someday, I'll win the lottery and make this happen myself. I just gotta start buying tickets...
Psh, Mayor of Seattle is a shitty job.
Take that million and start up that bike rental fleet as your own company. You'll do more for Seattle transportation that way than the last 5 mayors put together.
what I want to do is start a business offering 3rd-party finance options for new bicycles. Many, many more people could ride a decent bike at $40/month than $1800 up front.
koos42
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:34 am
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All this easy bike rental stuff is nice, until the city decides to be a dick about it and start hiking taxes on you, as they did flexcar. That was the city basically saying that while your creative thinking to solve our transportation issues is nice, and you'd indirectly give us more users on the busses, and in the SLUT, you should politely go tax yourself in the ass.
While I do tend to believe that taxes are great and should pay for a lot, they should offer tax breaks to companies like flexcar.
MyNameIsJeff
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:35 am
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Doesn't it look like they are falling down or bowing?
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laura
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:51 am
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[quote="MyNameIsJeff"]Doesn't it look like they are falling down or bowing?
quote]
LAUGHING
Let me just say that this forum makes work oh-so-tolerable. I thank each and every one of you for that.
Foo
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:57 am
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MyNameIsJeff wrote:
Doesn't it look like they are falling down or bowing?
I think this needs to go onto a poster and put up around SLU.
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:36 am
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[quote="laura"]
MyNameIsJeff wrote:
Doesn't it look like they are falling down or bowing?
quote]
LAUGHING
Let me just say that this forum makes work oh-so-tolerable. I thank each and every one of you for that.
no shit huh?!?
I knew this would be a jem!
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Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:38 am
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laura wrote:
MyNameIsJeff wrote:
Doesn't it look like they are falling down or bowing?
LAUGHING
Let me just say that this forum makes work oh-so-tolerable. I thank each and every one of you for that.
Of course it does. But I could also be doing more productive non-work activities, like studying.
Ha!
henry
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:23 am
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Remington wrote:
studying.
This is possibly the biggest crock of shit i've ever read on this forum.
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koos42 wrote:
All this easy bike rental stuff is nice, until the city decides to be a dick about it and start hiking taxes on you, as they did flexcar. That was the city basically saying that while your creative thinking to solve our transportation issues is nice, and you'd indirectly give us more users on the busses, and in the SLUT, you should politely go tax yourself in the ass.
While I do tend to believe that taxes are great and should pay for a lot, they should offer tax breaks to companies like flexcar.
The Flexcar tax is the State, not the city.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:07 pm
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laura wrote:
Let me just say that my dislike for the stupid duck boat is matched ONLY by the damn SLUT. It's not a real transportation solution and the gaps in the SLUT tracks are so freaking large, it's a matter of time before it sucks up my tires and throws me from my bike.
I believe the tracks are scheduled to be filled in with those rubber spacers before it opens. Why they don't do this when the lay the tracks down is beyond me.
But really, my fat tires and I don't give a damn.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:10 pm
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And to make this a trifecta, I thought I heard on KUOW this morning that Nickels wants to extend the SLUT to Capitol Hill. Presumably Capitol Hill/Westlake/SLU.
Here's an idea: extend it to the University District and then we can tell Metro to convert the 70 to the SLUT. Because the real problem here is not the money to build it, it's that the city only has finite hours allocated from Metro to operate it.
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laura
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:58 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
I believe the tracks are scheduled to be filled in with those rubber spacers before it opens. Why they don't do this when the lay the tracks down is beyond me.
But really, my fat tires and I don't give a damn.
Well here's to hoping the rubber spacers appear at some point and bah! to you and your fat tires. :)
kalen
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:07 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
And to make this a trifecta, I thought I heard on KUOW this morning that Nickels wants to extend the SLUT to Capitol Hill. Presumably Capitol Hill/Westlake/SLU.
Here's an idea: extend it to the University District and then we can tell Metro to convert the 70 to the SLUT. Because the real problem here is not the money to build it, it's that the city only has finite hours allocated from Metro to operate it.
That's the official page for all this. The big plan is to extend the SLUT up to the UD, as well as having a line go up Jackson to 1st and Cap hills.
The second line is supposed to help make up for light rail stop they nixed in 1st hill. You know, the light rail that'll be on its way in another 10 years. 2016 woo!
Whether any of this will happen is anybody's guess. It doesn't serve as yet another monument to Paul Allen's cock, so my guess is no.
Foo
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:09 pm
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kalen wrote:
Paul Allen's cock
Seriously folks, knock that shit off, I just ate!
henry
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:10 pm
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I think the SLU stuff is more of a monument to his wealth.
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henry wrote:
Remington wrote:
studying.
This is possibly the biggest crock of shit i've ever read on this forum.
Yeah, yeah. I know.
I'm going to go work on my resume now. Er, find a place to live. Or Something else on my to-do list. Sitting here clicking refresh certainly isn't helping...
henry
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:35 pm
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henry wrote:
Did alvin tell you that we're having lunch on Thursday? Are you going to be there? Does the rest of the Internet care?
who's alvin?
Remington
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:45 pm
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henry wrote:
Did alvin tell you that we're having lunch on Thursday? Are you going to be there? Does the rest of the Internet care?
No, but that won't stop me from posting what I'm up to. Why should it? The internet doesn't care.
Yeah, I'll be there. I just pushed back visiting my grandparents in Idaho a day so that I can.
Does Henry even care?
henry
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