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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

well that's in part because the E line goes about 100' above ground level in downtown fremont lol

cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

* graham street should get built. it's a tiny cost for a decent benefit, and after all, ST built pinehurst! * if the TCC extension is still in the neighborhood of $2bil, i have a hard time supporting it * this is about what i expected from the somers proposal

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

thoughts: * BLE to seattle center could be a pain in the ass for seattle center, unless funding is identified during construction to keep it going * maybe by 2050 the density will be there to make the 4 line work lmao

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

in better news, sound transit successfully thought hard enough to bring WSLE back into the realm of affordability (with the caveat that avalon station is definitely gonna get axed)

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

the counterargument there is 1. DSTT2 being a regional expense was an accounting trick all along. it's not set in stone 2. i'm not sure about 10% of the project cost, but what's unambiguously true is that $4b is ~10% of the *total shortfall* -- which is huge!

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

preferred alt is at 15th, no?

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Harper @harlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

In May, Sound Transit reached it's highest weekday ridership since November 2019 with over 158k daily. Lets talk about it! 🧵

Bar graph showing ST ridership over the last 13 months

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Harper @harlander.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This implies the existence of a Crossroads Qur'an Church and a Crossroads Torah Church

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not that anyone asked me, but I'm a lot more optimistic about Dow as Sound Transit CEO than a lot of the other Seattle transit advocates I've talked to. I do think the process has done untold damage to Sound Transit's overall public perception though.

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

i think she meant what program

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

ok i’m trying my best to touch grass through all of this but it doesn’t *eliminate* westlake per se, right? like i have significant issues w the concept but

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

everything else aside, calling nicole unambitious is crazy lmao bsky.app/profile/sdrx...

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

we can do good things, but we have a finite supply of political capital to do them with!

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

my new strategy of “everyone who disagrees with me is stupid and unambitious” is sure to draw support for my cause

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

engage with the thread on its merits. where is it wrong?

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

not now honey, mommy’s arguing about transit on the internet

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

good joke where’d you get it 😇

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

waiting for white smoke to come billowing out of the union station chimneys

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

unrelated, but we do know the outcome: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ballard Link update: lengthy construction timelines along with a laundry list of risks that come with operating next to a BNSF rail line make a Fourth Avenue option "not reasonably constructible", a third-party consultant told the Sound Transit board this week. www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/16/s...

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Sound Transit Study Bolsters Case Against CID Station at Fourth Avenue - The Urbanist

# A third-party consultant told the Sound Transit board this week that the Fourth Avenue station option in Chinatown is

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

okay, glad to see i'm not crazy. time for ST to go back to CID people and test refined 5th diagonal vs. N/S, i think

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cat! @kitcatherine03.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

ryan, is it your feeling that ST has greatly reduced the construction impacts of 5th relative to a couple years ago? it seems far less hurtful than it did previously...

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