Eric Aderhold

My antenna worked great tonight. Less so in the regular season.

It used to! I believe the bean counters tally up your fares and apportion the ORCA revenue between agencies accordingly. Not tapping off you'd get charged the maximum fare and then maybe give Sound Transit more than its fair share (and Metro et al less). Now that all Link rides are $3, just tap on.

Tapping off is no longer even a thing that you're supposed to do. It is only needed when different distances have a different fare. AFAIK we got rid of that on everything but the Sounder train.

Interesting to think about what the alternative would look like. "You can't connect this new building to the grid" or "You can connect this new building to the grid but your electricity will cost more than your neighbor." Would this apply to all new buildings or just data centers?

Do you know if the city has published a current version of the legislation "as amended" yet?

Yeah. Price fixing is bad. There should be enforcement targeted against it. Also it's not the One Big Reason rents are high.

This presumes a "robo-15-passenger-van" isn't next on their roadmap as the robo-taxi companies gain enough of the local transportation market share to match trips up and use fewer vehicles.

Talking about whether e-bikes should be governed at 12mph or 15mph or 18mph in a space where cars can go 90mph is a sure sign you've completely lost the plot

They don't meet the moment. Adding a backyard cottage here and there isn't bad but it's not going to move the needle, and if that's all we can manage to agree on allowing in our cities we're well and truly cooked.

We took a family trip to Kelowna BC recently and it was pretty striking. The number of high-rise and mid-rise residential buildings near the city center is much higher than I would expect to see in a similar-sized US city, especially one that largely developed in the past 50 years.

Yes, and since children don't disappear into the ether a block from school and do in fact cross other streets, maybe all the crossings should look like this.

The proposed points system already requires a certain number of trees to be planted and/or preserved. Why add a second thing instead of just increasing the number of points?

"How dare you propose to put in housing for more bus riders before you first start running a bunch of mostly empty buses around the neighborhood." This has never been a serious argument if you spend two seconds thinking about it.

As we should! Whenever our elected officials and the people who report to them violate peoples' basic rights, those folks should be able to expect to be made whole. And if we don't like that we should vote better next time.

They were speeding, lost control, hit the curb, and then flipped over. Technically correct to say it flipped after hitting the curb, but burying the lede for sure.

Also Kroger would have to decide not to slap a no-supermarket covenant on the land when they sell.

I think I read an earlier draft of the bill that would prorate the FAR based on what fraction of the lot was used for stacked vs. non-stacked housing, but I'm not up to date on what all the amendments say.

Oh great, now we're going to get anti-housing folks sneaking into proposed development sites and planting a tiny tree right in the middle of the property to derail the whole thing.

This creates a noticeable incentive to simply not plant trees on your land, and also to cut down any existing trees that are in danger of growing large enough to trigger the tree protection laws anytime soon. Seems bad.

Such rules are also terrible for long-term incentives around tree planting in Seattle itself! If you care about your property value (as most homeowners do) a tree that can't be removed makes your property less valuable than your treeless neighbor's property.

Heaven forbid we pave over some dirty soil and let kids ride their skateboards on the concrete without cleaning the soil first.

Imagine assuming that these new people won't be paying taxes, or that the taxes they do pay won't ever go toward funding amenities that the next round of newcomers gets to enjoy.

One of the wires in a three-way switch setup is actually known as a traveler. That's one of the less-wrong things about this diagram.

Machu Picchu

Our city treats "steep hill" as a reason for environmental protection, as though humans haven't been successfully building on steep hills for ages. Sure, you need some engineering work to make sure it's not going to cause a landslide or anything, but it shouldn't be banned entirely.

Those cars have to be going somewhere. It's not like the downtown streets or parking garages are increasing in size without bound, so how could the Ballard Bridge traffic do so?

Yeah I'm just saying the Portland map legend implies that there does exist some zone with unlimited height that would be marked "UL" but I couldn't find one. Good on Spokane for having some better sense.

I spent like five minutes searching the map for where the "UL" (unlimited height) label was applied, but couldn't find any. Am I blind or is the person who put together the map key messing with us?

In a multi-party parliamentary system it's totally fair to say "this person's views are divergent enough from mine that we should be in different parties" but in a two-party system the subtext basically is "and by kicking him out of my party he therefore should not have a chance to win elections."

It's as though they assume kids only are pedestrians in the immediate vicinity of schools right around the start and end of the school day, and just disappear the rest of the time. If driving >20 MPH is too fast near kids a block from school, it's probably too fast other times/places too.

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”

show some damn pride in the places you want to govern