SEATTLE

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The Trophy Building wow

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well i just did something i never do: take a walk without a destination in mind. i ended up walking down 4th, past Escala, and got this shot:

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then walked to westlake and took the monorail back. good for me.

well then!

there's already none at mccaw

From HFS Director:

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Washington State Recycling Association has selected the University of Washington, Department of Housing and Food Services as the winner of the 2008 Washington State Recycler of the Year (ROY) award in the category Institution of Higher Learning. This recognition is the result of a lot of hard work by HFS staff and students, including members of Students Expressing Environmental Dedication (SEED), a UW residence hall environmental group. Our success has also depended on our customers; students, faculty, and staff, who are willing to follow our recycling and composting suggestions. HFS will receive the award at the 28th Annual Washington State Recycling Conference and Trade Show, May 18-21, 2008, in Pasco, Washington. Keep up the great work!

seattle and bellevue aerial pictures

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buncha buncha good news from http://seatrans.blogspot.com/

Most of the rail is completed for Airport Link except along the roadway and at the final station. This is planned to be completed by this Summer. Wire installation of the entire route will be completed by the Summer of 2008. Beacon Hill Station building will start construction later this Summer with the structure being completed by the end of the year.

Sound Transit has put in an order for 20 additional LRV's for University Link. This will be the third order and will be delivered in 2013. Sound Transit currently has 21 LRV's on the property, leaving 14 of the initial order remaining which are all in Everett now for assembly.

Link operators are running 16 hour shifts, starting between 6am and going until at least midnight to get people accustomed to day and night operations. Metro staff will start training in February 2009.

Starting later this week or two, Metro and Sound Transit will begin bus and Light-Rail testing in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel. This will consist of 1 LRV and 6 buses. Next week will be 2 LRV's and 12 buses. They will simulate a broken down bus, broken down LRV, emergency drills, etc, which will all be repeated in Feb-Mar for Metro operators.

Sound Transit is aiming for a JUNE 2009 opening though it may very well be July 2009. Either way, it will be a Summer launch.

Signaling along MLK Way will be timed with the train and traffic. At any given time, the E-W traffic will be delayed no more than 35 seconds, a typical light on MLK Way. Currently the grade crossing is timed for 23 seconds at Lander and Holgate Street. I timed both of these crossings today. This model is NOT the same as the South Lake Union Streetcar, the Streetcar does NOT have signal priority on any of it's travel. It waits for it's own light which is why it suffers being so slow. Central Link will have signal priority throughout the entire line and will travel at 40mph through the entire corridor. From Henderson Street Station, Link will travel at speeds up to 50mph and it's maximum speed of 55mph on the elevated sections. Link also runs in a dedicated right-of-way and while it is paved over to Henderson, that does not mean vehicles will be on the tracks. Provisioning was left to allow a low yield fence along the right-of-way if pedestrian and vehicle incidents were to be expected.

Total travel time from Sea-Tac Airport to Westlake Mall is slated to be 39 minutes initially and as adjustments are made, will be down to as fast as 34 minutes.

Sound Transit is planning on operating 3 to 4 car trains during the baseball and football seasons, normal runs will be 1 and 2 car trains.

Sound Transit will be closing Pine Street next year to start boring on University Link. Two of the tunnel boring machines will start at Montlake to Capitol Hill, the third will start at Capitol Hill to the Pine Street Stub Tunnel. Sound Transit has most of the properly bought and will begin demolition early next year for construction staging.

Sound Transit will have Mukilteo Station open in June 2008 with the Northbound platform starting after BNSF Railway finishes up construction for Boeing. Platform construction is scheduled to start in 2009 and open in June 2009.

Today’s puzzler: where in Seattle is this magnificent pile of concrete located?

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good seattle picture

worthwhile pictures of georgetown
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possible expanded streetcar network

i like it all except the ballard-west seattle route. that one needs to be light rail.

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yowza!

Northwest Airlines Announces New Nonstop Service between Seattle and Beijing

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1925 btw

light rail got power today!

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^university bridge btw

ayo seattlers ... lxy's suggesting a visit down your way, which sounds like an a++ idea. do you guys fancy drinks and excitement anytime june 13-18?

that would be great! i just looked at my calendar for those dates and the only the i've got going is work, a few of those days (to be expected though). fun fun.

yes yes yes plz how wonderful!!

awesome! I will start making mi plans.

we have a couple of guest rooms so please count on staying with us if desirable and convenient, stet.

how perfect that the song 'happy house' is playing as i type.

stet can we complain about ilx problems to you the whole time you're here?

we're not going to talk about ilx

Museum Director Is Found Dead

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Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Published: May 16, 2008

The 62-year-old American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a detention center in Seattle, The Associated Press reported. The woman, Roxanna Brown, died early Wednesday, apparently of natural causes. Maggie Ogden, a prison spokeswoman, said an autopsy would be performed. Ms. Brown, director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, was arrested last week while visiting relatives in Seattle and charged with a single count of wire fraud. Health problems kept her from appearing in federal court in Seattle on Monday. She was accused of allowing art collectors to use her electronic signature to overstate the value of art they donated to museums in Southern California. Investigators said that procedure allowed the collectors to claim fraudulent tax deductions.

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Lingy you know i'll get drunk on seattle beer and you guys will have to take the keys to ilx off me for everybody's good and then we'll wake up having replaced every post since 2001 with "lol".

ha

yet another worthwhile slideshow, this one for the wing luke museum, a recently reopened pan-asian art museum in the ID.

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the keys to ilx

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HEY STET,

are you coming here?

your friend,

jp

GOODBYE BROADWAY TACO BELL

HEY STET,

are you coming here?

your friend,

jp

-- jergins, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 3:48 PM (Tuesday, June 3, 2008 3:48 PM) Bookmark Link

PLEASE DO

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But Cunningham is not just any campus building. Constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, it is celebrating its centennial next year. It was the site of the state's first Suffragette activity and today is the only designated "women's building" in the state.

and it's going to be moved

i prefer "ladies' building" but ok

restaurant review of greenwood between 85th and 87th