Thursday morning miscellaneous

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-It’s not just Alki. I see urban tree protests are becoming the hot new thing.

-The new First Mutual Bank branch north of the Junction is finally open. Huge “GRAND OPENING” banner. That site was home to a “COMING SOON” sign for what seemed like years.

-The new Safeway gas station on Admiral (east of the Jack in the Box) looks close to opening. As we drove past, West Seattle Blogger Spouse exclaimed, “Good God, the site is even LANDSCAPED!” (But do a couple cents a gallon really matter when gas prices are this high? Just asking.)

-Driving almost the full length of California, I was a bit astounded at the number of new teardown-to-condo projects under way. It’s grown exponentially. One project even shows the transformation on its Web site. (And some of those condos are going for ALMOST A MILLION BUCKS!)

Mickymse May 25, 2006 (12:51 pm)

How many years do you think it will be before California is a canyon of condo buildings and people start asking why we don’t have a mass transit system in place to move all of these people? There’s too much traffic on California and the Bridge!

Oh… wait a minute… we tried. *SIGH*

eric May 26, 2006 (9:12 am)

Be thankful the monorail failed. All we need is a simple solution of express bus routes. Exapnd the Spokane St. Viaduct so that it can accomodate the bus only lane to an offramp that meets up directly with the 5th Ave busway then to the tunnel (once sound transit gets finished messing it up). Problem solved. The monorail would save only a few minutes from such a system. Is a few minutes really worth billions of dollars??

Take the savings that would have been spent on the bloated, mismanaged, eyesore that we called the monorail and spend it on education and human services.

Regardless of your feelings on the monorail – voters approved it and voters killed it. The people have spoken. The monorail is dead.

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