In preparation for tomorrow’s Ride Free Area forum, I thought it would be a good time to discuss distance based fares. One of the real problems I’ve had with ending the RFA is that King County Metro’s fare system is nearly flat. Flat fares are a bit like having a single price for ice cream, [...]
Until Link goes more places, enthusiasts from other parts of the city will need excuses to come to the Rainier Valley. This week’s excuse is the Franklin (High School Arts Festival, Saturday, May 19th from 11am to 3pm. The school is clearly visible from Mt. Baker Station. From PTSA president Elizabeth Lowry: The festival will [...]
The headline in the Capitol Hill Seattle blog pretty much says it all: Facing ‘unprecedented wave’ of development, letter gives design board license to kill (bad projects) Well I’m afraid to deliver the bad news, but no it doesn’t. Design review was never intended to kill projects whether they were deemed “bad” by the public [...]
Eco-friendly tires are the future and the latest upgrade to automobiles. These tires were originally for hybrids. Now these tires are readily available for all vehicles. The Michelin HydroEdge with Green X is a well-rated energy efficient tire that was … Continue reading →
In my previous post, I proposed selling carrots on Metro buses, and allowing people to use their ORCA cards for this purchase. ORCA cards have the ability for what’s called an E-Purse. This stores money on your ORCA card for travel that isn’t covered by a regular pass. I use my E-Purse* to pay for [...]
With U-Link coming online by the end of 2016, rail will serve some of our densest neighborhoods as well as one of the largest employment centers in the region. To date, however, most of our attention has been absorbed by development opportunities and disputes further up around other North Link stations. While the UW Station [...]
At a 2:30 press conference today at Tukwila Int’l Blvd Station, Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray and Chief of Police Ron Griffin announced the discovery that approximately 4.2 miles and 70,000 pounds of copper wire has been stolen from within LINK’s hollow elevated guideway. With the exception of the stations themselves, all of the wire between [...]
Anecdotally, I’ve been having a lot more success with OneBusAway the last few weeks. I asked OBA point man S. Morris Rose if it has been restored to the accuracy level of, say, a year ago: At some level, OBA per se hasn’t changed at all, but there have been fixes inside the KCM network [...]
The Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel (COP) is an internal watchdog that observes Sound Transit’s various functions and identifies risk areas. They produce some of the more interesting reports to come out of the agency. Anyhow, they’re looking for members of the public, especially from South King and Pierce Counties, with some kind of relevant [...]
: 07 May , 2012 How do airboats compare to hovercraft Unlike airboats , hovercraft are flying machines that travel above the surface on a bubble of air so they don’t create a wake on water . Airboats are flat-bottomed boats with a large propeller and their entire weight rests on the surface , creating a wake . Airboats usually require a boat dock for launching hovercraft do . not Airboats are limited to relatively smooth water because their hulls have low gunwales which can be easily swamped . Airboats have minimum positive flotation , where hovercraft have quite a lot up to 1 1 2 times their weight . This enables hovercraft to operate safely on swiftwater . Here , first responders from the U.S . Air Force practice swiftwater rescue techniques in a Neoteric hovercraft Both are amphibious
: 03 May , 2012 Can I build a hovercraft from a kit All you need is a Neoteric partially assembled hovercraft kit and you can easily build your own hovercraft . This is the only production hovercraft available in do-it-yourself kits . Not only does a DIY hovercraft save you 25 off the price of a manufactured hovercraft , it gives you a great project to enjoy with family or . friends The kit hovercraft is easy to assemble because much of the work has already been completed at the factory and the kits come with full hovercraft assembly instructions , including a DVD . It takes about 40 hours to finish and all you need are basic workshop skills , a work area about the size of a one-car garage , and common hand tools such as an electric drill , a pop rivet gun , a set of screwdrivers and sets