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The focus of Sound Transit 3 should shift from obsolete rail to efficient Bus Rapid Transit and park-and-ride lots, writes Mariya Frost. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2

4:28 PM · Oct 26, 2020

Also: There is literally nothing written in good faith in this article. 1) People are riding transit less now, true, but unless we're planning to be in a pandemic forever, maybe we should keep planning for a post pandemic future.

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2) REI pulled back their plans and Facebook immediately rented that space. Who knows whether REI will consider that a smart move long term or not. Apparently FB didn't think it was.

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3) I'm not sure where the twisted math comes from to claim that mostly only rich people ride transit, but it's a flat lie. People across the economic spectrum are on transit but people who make the least rely on transit the most.

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4) Rail has several big advantages over other modes - but the two biggest are capacity and the political ability to secure right of way. We challenge every disingenous "BRT advocate" to identify which streets they would shut down to cars to make their network work efficiently.

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Warren Yee

@scubapandarail

Why I call BST instead of BRT. “Buses Stuck in Traffic”.

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I just call this article BS.

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John Dimas

@jadimas

Guess they have to get their punches in before light rail opens up at Northgate and then Lynnwood. Those two will be game changers.

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Yeah, we're expecting the next few years to be pretty rough for the anti-transit crowd. Northgate Link will be huge. Lynnwood Link will be huge. East Link will be huge. Federal Way and Redmond Link will also be big. That's a lot of good news to try to message against.

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push the needle

@pushtheneedle

Oct 27, 2020

1) she’s a republican pro highway lobbyist 2) REI didn’t just lease it to Facebook, they sold it to them for a $185 million dollar profit

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