April 12, 2006
Seattle Traffic
Timothy Ellis e-mails us about his new blog "Seattle Traffic", dedicated, unsurprisingly to:
News and discussion about traffic, roads, parking, and other related issues in the Seattle area.
Among other things, this blog links to a recent KOMO-TV report that "
Mayor Nickels Proposes Less Parking" Of course, finding parking is not a problem that Mayor Nickels, who we last heard is
chauffeured around in a Cadillac DTS, is likely to experience these days. The KOMO piece prompted me to send a records request to Mayor "
live without cars" Nickels asking for documentation on all of his recent taxpayer-funded automobile usage, including mileage, gasoline consumption and parking.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 12, 2006
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1. Nickels can eliminate all parking in downtown for all I care. Just won't go there any more. Plenty of shopping (and parking) at South Center or online.
2. ..and they keep electing this guy?? More reasons for me to stay away from downtown Seattle.
3. LAst time I parked in downtown Seattle I had to use their "new" parking ticket machines, the ones with the little paper tags that you put on your windows.
Well needless to say the little paper tag fell off of my window and when I got back to my vehicle I had a nice little parking enforcement ticket on my window.
The court did let me contest it by mail and having my window sticker and reciept for the parking they let me go with a warning.....
I took their warning and decided to never again go to the downtown area again....
5. If illegals can walk from Mexico, surely we can all walk to downtown!! And another thing... I took a bus to the last Mariners game I went to four years ago and along the way I noticed something...no parking! Can you have "less parking" where there is no parking? Nickels is a baffoon liberals deserve.
6. JCM, maybe the automakers like Toyota and Honda will start making huge donations to the Democratic party, and then you know that legislation for hybrids will be proposed. But within the next year, I doubt it. They are still busy trying to figure out the HOT toll lanes.
7. More from the looney Utopians. Like it's really possible to eliminate cars from our current societal, geographic, economic, suburban, etc. reality. Wishing cars away won't make it so. But it makes NIckels feel good and look good to the other back slapping environ wackos like Al Gore so they will come to Seattle be photographed shaking Nickels' hand.
Do as they say, not as they do.
8. Cliff,
Speaking of the electronic parking meters, apparently those things are
raking in the dough for the city. Thanks in large part to the fact that they're putting them up in places where parking used to be free! Look for a post on Seattle Traffic regarding this sometime later today.
9. When I have used those kiosks, if I am leaving and know I am not going anywhere else in the city that would require one, I leave the sticker with time left on it at the kiosk.
Getting to a parking space with time left on it was always a great feeling, and that has been taken away with this technology.
10. This is so typical of the left. They see themselves as solving the problems of the unwashed masses, but of course have no plans to follow the rules. Nichols knows he will never suffer the problem of finding a parking place. Also look at Joel Connelly, he has no problem with the current state of King County voter registration problems because he doesn't follow them.
So all of you left leaning lemmings out there, wake up and understand that all those restrictions and rules that your leaders are forcing on you, they have absolutely no intention of having them apply to them. They are the annointed, you are the unwashed masses.
11. Think parking's bad now? City is currently eliminating 2000 free spaces and planning to extend pay kiosk system into nights and weekends. Read and weep
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0615/parking.php
12. What's funny about the whole anti-parking mentality is how much it's going to backfire on Nickels. Seattle's downtown, and especially the parts of it with night life are really quite small. The people who work downtown, have already figured out that they can't afford to park all day unless they get a spot reserved for them based on their position and benefits, etc. So they could care less about parking. The real damage done by the anti-parking folks like Nickels will be to the restaurants and shops in the downtown area. Especially the areas like Belltown that rely heavily on nightlife and are not all that close to parking garages. Sure there are the surface lots, but people going out to eat at night are used to getting to park for free. Make parking difficult, or more expensive and they will go elsewhere.
Occasionally I meet friends in a bar in downtown Seattle, but there's no reason why we would not go to Fremont or Ballard or anywhere else in town if parking downtown became a big hassle.
Just watch, business drops off a few percentage points, and there wil be some serious screaming at Nickels.
13. Fat Greggy is no liberal. His bread is buttered by the auto lobby. Seattle is overrun with traffic, mostly generated by suburbanites who just can't make ends meet out there in nowhereville. But, does Fat Greggy put his foot down and demand real transit solutions? I don't think so. The light rail will be a commuter system. "Whoo!, bring them thar suburbanites in and get them a'shoppin!" And the monorail plan is kerfunct. Hmmm. I don't get it. Is Fat Greggy a transit-happy liberal? Or is he really a successful anti-transit tool? Sounds to me like ol' Fat Greggy is a repukelican in desguise.
"I have no idea who leaked that memo. But if any member of my administration leaked it, they'll be taken care of", George Bush. Taken care of, real nice, all right.
14. Hey Shark...
Do you think they even track that sort of thing.
In Tacoma they do not track information on any city vehicle, including mileage or fuel.
When they get tired of a vehicle they just send it to the acution!!!
15. Fat Greggy is no liberal. His bread is buttered by the auto lobby. Seattle is overrun with traffic, mostly generated by suburbanites who just can't make ends meet out there in nowhereville.
Lots of class, and all of it low.
16. Oh I don't know South County - I thought it totally redefined incoherency ;'}