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Thursday, September 22, 2005


Sweat It Out In The Streets Of A Runaway American Dream

For the past several days downtown Seattle bus commuters have been treated to the rather amusing sight of a dozen or so SPD motorcycles and patrol cars racing up-and-down Third Avenue, leaning hard on the lights and sirens, pulling over hapless drivers and (presumably) politely informing them of the impending closure of the street to vehicular traffic during the morning & evening rush-hours.

Starting Monday, our local downtown bus tunnel, Seattle's anemic imitation of a subway system, will close for approximately two years, while the tunnel is expanded and retrofitted to accomodate a light rail line. As a consequence, the 70+ bus routes that normally use the tunnel will be shunted up to surface streets, and in order to accomodate the extra transit traffic, somebody decided to turn 3rd Ave into a temporary transit mall.

Having seen similar transit-only thoroughfares in other cities (our neighbor to the south, Portland sports a fine one), it sort of begs the question of whether, after all the underground work is completed sometime in 2007 and the light rail line starts up in 2009, the current temporary arrangement shouldn't become permanent. Sure, a few business owners will bitch-and-moan about access, but frankly considering there'll be a roughly 200% increase in foot traffic past their doors every weekday, it seems like catering to an exclusively public transit using clientele would be a win-win opportunity for them.

In the meantime, those of us at the bus stops will continue to watch as the clueless drivers get pulled over, only starting next week we'll have the added entertainment value of seeing them try to talk their way out of the inevitable tickets.


Posted byCOMTE on 11:29 AM


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