A summary of Ray Delahanty’s CityNerd video and the discussion it prompted on Seattle Transit Blog about East Link station areas, recent Link openings, and Seattle’s planning and politics around light rail.
CityNerd (Ray Delahanty) analyzes East Link station areas and ranks or compares stations, with Downtown Redmond highlighted by commenters as especially strong.
The video includes visits to Lynnwood Link and neighborhood corridors such as Alaska Junction and Ballard, prompting debate about which Seattle neighborhoods deserve Link stations.
Commenters focus on Sound Transit’s suburban orientation, subarea politics, and local Seattle decision-making that affect where light rail gets built.
He also visits Lynnwood Link, and discusses the transit sagas and urban potential in West Seattle and Ballard. East Link Station Areas & More" This is one of my favorite CityNerd videos. I pretty much agree with his Top Ten list of the East Link stations, although I would swap Downtown Bellevue and Spring District.
Thus, Gresham deserved light rail because providing bus service there had become an economic skinkhole that could be fixed by having large numbers of passengers per driver. Of course the largest villages should be on Link, because traveling between them generates the highest ridership and usefulness, as people go to both residences and businesses. Star Lake was built because it was on the way to Federal Way.
I'm also glad he visited Alaska Junction and Ballard. We really need to bring this project back home to Seattle proper. There is so much support for car free living in the city.
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