Please Be Advised: RantWoman is binge-blogging. RantWoman here means to continue to observe particularly #NDEAM and #PedestrianSafety Month.
However if the role description is self-employed, say Patreon supported producer of well-crafted thought pieces, RantWoman is not going to get there tonight. RantWoman can riff on "will work for sandwiches" volunteer gigs. RantWoman is happy to riff about badly needed improvements in pedestrian safety status for many, many bus stops on Rainier. and also along Madison Street which gets to keep their RapidRide line.
As someone who served on the Service Guidelines Task Force, RantWoman can probably go look up the resulting document and see whether she agrees or disagrees with Metro's interpretation of what falls within the service guidelines.
RantWoman also means to look up whatever King County tax and Transportation Benefit district funds might be applied to. RantWoman is entertaining a question: do Metro planners hope that transit dependent riders in the Rainier valley will get so mad about the delay and the postponement yet again of pedestrian amenity improvements first studied in 2007 that these voters will vote with wild enthusiasm for yet more regressive transportation funding through an upcoming Transportation Benefit district (TBD)?
RantWoman also admits to annoyance that Madison Valley gets to go ahead with the H line. RantWoman freely admits: a LOT of the Madison Valley bus stops RantWoman has experience SUCK on the pedestrian friendliness front. The culprit: TREES, glorious well-rooted trees which of course over their long tree lives just play havoc with sidewalks. RantWoman does not want to see the trees go any more than anyone else and RantWoman has no idea exactly what work is proposed along Madison. HOWEVER, RantWoman thinks anyone trying to drive from the Madison Valley anywhere should just get out of their cars and onto a bus. They should do this on ecological and also on traffic congestion grounds. They should be able to do that now, even without spiffy new bus stop amenities!
There. RantWoman will close for now with the links below and many questions.
Metro post about pandemic-related RapidRide route devlopments
Seattle Times on Rapid Ride R 10 6 20
And in barely tangentially related news, some cool charts to think about mixing with tactile graphics.
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