it gives you a good idea of why the flights to/from europe go so far north
AVA (something i like about this one)
what is it picture of, please?
oh nevermind, i see it on the other thread. that’s great.
there’s a sudden explosion of outdoor movies this year, innit?
yeah, totally. used to be just fremont, eh?
seattle’s only saltwater pool
hello bank of china knock off in downtown seattle i love u
http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/ and click time lapse
HEY! nice find!
how crazy crazy wonderful is this???
omg do we live in a real city now? almost?
almost
nevertheless i love this project and i’m looking forward to the joy of painting tomorrow. it sounds cute.
and to hello from MOTEL on friday. because i am going to get a postcard out of it. written just for me. from the motel.
(proposed, heron tower, on 5th across from the westin)
4 Seasons http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/, Olive 8 http://216.163.80.83:8080/webcam.html, 1521 2nd http://www.1521progress.com/webcam_live.php, Enso http://sellen.oxblue.com/1/, Rollins Street http://vulcan.oxblue.com/rollins/, Veer Lofts http://vulcan.oxblue.com/veer/, and Swedish Orthopedic Building http://sellen.oxblue.com/soi/. And in Bellevue: Bellevue Towers http://www.bellevuetowers.com/and the Bravern http://68.178.124.204/index.html?size=1&mode=2.
we gotta go to this
i am loving november’s balmy nights
The Crocodile is closing. sad but okay. its course had been run, years ago.
kinda sexi midrise for SLU
i don’t understand this (from carless in seattle blog).
“Excess demand for roadways during peak hours is the real problem, to which congestion is the most feasible solution.”
i guess they’re trying to say that the options for congestion are to build more roadways, increase mass transit options, or let people sit. considering the stupidty of the first and the cost of the second, this person is, i guess, arguing that letting people sit in traffic is the best option.
CHAKI HAS RECOMMENDATION:
my nephew’s black metal band is opening up for wolves in the throne room in seattle. you should go see him!
— chaki, Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:18 PM (Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:18 PM) Bookmark Link
HUB renovation check out scheme C
wow! i say let’s go platinum!
there are lots of great ones ^^ but the kingdome going down is my favorite:
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:
then walked to westlake and took the monorail back. good for me.
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!
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.
worthwhile pictures of georgetown
http://buildllc.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/better-know-a-neighborhood-georgetown-seattle/
i like it all except the ballard-west seattle route. that one needs to be light rail.
yowza!
1925 btw
^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
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/16arts-MUSEUMDIRECT_BRF.html?ref=arts
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.
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.
the keys to ilx
HEY STET,
are you coming here?
your friend,
jp
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
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.
i prefer “ladies’ building” but ok
plans for capitol hill light rail station art
they’re here and goddamn those bastards are loud
I LOVE THEM it is my jingo mo
they’re back. they just did this:
and this:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008091508_webcroc05.html
There’s new hope, Crocodile Cafe mourners: Marcus and Sheila Charles have applied for the liquor license attached to the beloved club, and the approval process is under way.
The Croc, at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street in Belltown, closed suddenly in December. It was Seattle’s best and most famous rock club. Marcus Charles owns the Bad Juju, a bar on the same block.
welcome back? they gotta change the layout. and yeah maybe most famous but best? hell no
Another 400-foot residential tower has been proposed in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood.
This one, on Fourth Avenue between Lenora and Blanchard streets, may feature something different: In what its backers call a “cultural response” to its next-door neighbor, the restored Cinerama Theatre, the project would include a “large-scale outdoor projection movie theater” on the roof.