If we scroll out just a little, we can see the DSTT connects directly to the I-90 center roadway. This is where the rails disappear into the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel. Because Google Earth and Google Maps use the same image data, everything here is a link you can open in your browser. Since then, we’ve come a long way, and I just thought I’d link everyone to some highlights. This is fantastic from a transit standpoint – the last images were taken at a very early stage of construction.
I was looking at Seattle on Google Earth this morning, and I noticed that much of the city has been updated with new images. A Google Maps tour of Central Link, part 1
It looks like we’re moving into the workshop room shortly. She’s brought up LA and Houston as examples of cities where the choices made, where the planning used, did not effectively address growth – and that we don’t want to go that way, but we need to work together now, because we don’t have more time to wait. She’s pointing out that we are not forcing anyone out of their cars, or to move to places where they don’t want to live, but rather we’re creating affordable housing and transportation that people will choose to live in, and choose to use. The rail system we expected to start in the 1970s has been delayed nearly 40 years.Ġ8:40 Update: She’s discussing funding mechanisms for transportation, and who permits development – the fact that we need to streamline permitting, for instance, where we now have a mishmash of city, county, state, and federal, rather than an integrated system. Wow, she’s just said (and I paraphrase): “What international city has on-street parking? What international city has two-way streets downtown?” She’s also just pointed out that I-5 brings us congestion – and that mass transit is part of the solution. Governor Christine Gregoire is currently standing in front of a breakfast with about 250 local leaders – from elected officials to business leaders to prominent researchers – explaining what we’re going to do today.
Where will they live? How will we move them? This workshop is about understanding growth, and planning for our urban layout as 1.7 million new people are born and move here by 2040. Good morning! I’ll be liveblogging from the Urban Land Institute’s Reality Check workshop today. Update (daimajin): That’s a well dressed live blogger!
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