TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Friday, with spring just hours away

(Four WS-relevant views; more cams on the WSB Traffic page)
Happy end of winter! Spring arrives at 3:45 this afternoon (and Spring Equinox Sunset Watch with Alice Enevoldsen is three hours later). One weekend note: Washington State Ferries starts its spring/summer schedule on Sunday.

UP, UP, AND AWAY: The first big piece of the Highway 99 tunnel machine to come out of the repair-access pit achieved liftoff on Thursday – see it here.

TWO SURVEYS FOR YOU: Both about transportation – the West Seattle Transportation Coalition is focusing on parking, and the truth of what we do and don’t use and why; take that survey here. And the city is asking your thoughts related to its big levy plan – take that survey here.

Joe Szilagyi (WSTC) March 20, 2015 (9:02 am)

Thanks everyone for taking the survey so far. It’s extraordinary — over 600 responses so far with tons of interesting data. Keep it going – spread the word! Share it online and by email!
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One quick note because it keeps getting asked in response to this on here, Facebook, email, and in previous meetings:
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The “park and hide” practice as it’s called is NOT illegal and we have never, ever heard a legitimate call for it to be made illegal with any seriousness — it’s more… derided, I suppose, especially as some unwise people seem to want to apparently park and hide in the eastern Triangle/North Delridge/Avalon region.
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Pro-tip: park and hiding IN THE MOST CROWDED FINAL SPAN of our mass transit system in West Seattle is comically daft. You want to do it where you can actually get a seat and/or not be passed over by a bus. I watch a couple of people from Arbor Heights do it sometimes in our area since wide tracts of Arbor Heights have no buses anymore, and living for nearly ten years at one of the deepest stops on the #33/#24 line in Magnolia (36th/34th & Government) I watched an army of people drop their cars off on otherwise empty side streets daily for the downtown commute by bus.
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In all the years up there either, I never heard a single complaint about the practice, and the people were generally praised if it DID come up for NOT clogging up routes.
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Just things to think about with the park and hide practice. Now car ranching… I don’t know that I’ve ever heard a single positive word about that.

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