SounderBruce

I signed in for the first time in a year or two to compliment your work! As a native Seattleite, it's great to see this much attention given to the city I call home. The limited road crossings of the Ship Canal does hinder travel quite a bit, but we're slowly building bypasses deep underground: in the form of light rail tunnels. The University Link Extension to UW (from Downtown via Capitol Hill) is nearly a year old and has boosted ridership by 30,000 daily (to 69,000). Further extensions are expected to open in 2021 and 2023, with a new phase (Sound Transit 3) expected even further out into the 2040s after getting funding approved by voters last November. The chokepoints are arguably a great asset when it comes to transit ridership. And the last image came from my camera a few months ago! If you ever need some reference material, I'd be glad to go and fetch some for you.

Just got back from the design review board meeting for this one last night. Board was very receptive to the changes made, though now it's only 1,029 ft (not because of the FAA according to the architect, but because of the developer wanting to cut costs a bit). Moving onto the next phase in the design process, the Master Use Permit (MUP).

We only have a few toll roads (one HOT lane and two bridges...another HOT lane coming online this summer) and they have plenty of alternate (but much longer) routes. Here's the maximum rates: SR 520 (the one pictured): $3.80 with pass, $5.40 by mailSR 16/Tacoma Narrows Bridge (eastbound span only; assumed to be 2 axles): $5 with pass, $6 cash at toll booth (the only one in the state), $7 by mailSR 167 HOT Lane (free for carpools): $9I-405 HOT Lanes (opening this summer, free for carpools): $10 [pass required for all vehicles]

I got my first DSLR in April after a year of honing my skills with a point-and-shoot camera and I've taken plenty of shots. Lots more on my Flickr account and my SkyscraperCity thread, all licensed under Creative Commons for use by anyone (only requiring attribution and retaining the license when making derivatives). Enjoy the sights of Seattle's transportation infrastructure:

Nice job with the icons! Thanks! A few of them were hand-made by tracing silhouettes over logos, which explains why the sizes aren't consistent. Someday I'll get around to fixing that.

It's not much, but Seattle's King Street Station is quite nice. Its interior was restored in 2012 to bring out features dating back to its opening in 1906 that were covered during renovations.

High-speed rail really needs to be introduced here. It should replace medium-distance travel (where people opt to drive long distances instead of flying on a ridiculously short flight) between major cities on major and already well-traveled corridors. Locally, I'd love to see a high-speed line from Vancouver BC to Seattle and to Portland with a handful of stops in between.

My desktop is quite cluttered, but my W8.1 start screen is quite nice if I say so myself:

The responsive design looks very nice across all three of my screens (desktop, 7" tablet and 5" phone). Great work, guys!

The redesign has coaxed me into returning after yet another year-long hiatus. I also managed to get Cities: Skylines during the Steam Summer Sale, so I might start a journal with that game.

Good try at recreating Seattle.   One giant, glaring typo, though: Union Station is no longer a rail station. King Street Station is Seattle's railway station, while Union Station houses the offices of Sound Transit.   Also, Metro buses run inside the tunnel. Only one ST route is in the tunnel.

  It's not quite as grand as that. A skybridge over the drop-off area, then into a partially-covered walkway in the parking garage before getting to the platforms.

Good re-creation, but there's a small correction that needs to be made: Link Light Rail (not all caps) only goes to the Westlake Center in Downtown Seattle. The planned extensions to the University of Washington is scheduled to open in 2016. Also, the satellite terminals are connected by a people mover system (similar to a scaled-down automated subway), not an underground moving walkway (which you can, as the name implies, walk on).

Links to the apartment buildings in the lower left would be appreciated.