SamKeeper

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SamKeeper
@SamKeeper

considering that robert moses built an empire on the strength of "the people of new york wish to touch grass" it's genuinely frustrating to me that easy transit access to large parks, nature preserves, and yes even municipal public access golf courses isn't a bigger part of urbanist discourse.

there's apparently just no way to take a bus easily along the ~brand new pedestrian friendly seattle waterfront~ from say the ferry at one end to the olympic sculpture park at the other. you have to go all the way up to 3rd street. that's offensively stupid and inaccessible.

working people don't just deserve mass transit for going to and from work, they deserve mass transit to get them to a fucking beach too.

oh what's that, instead we're getting more ev subsidies just pocketed by car manufacturers? well isn't that just swell!

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JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

there used to be a trolley that did literally that (until 2005, when the shed got ripped up for the park)! then they replaced it with a bus (until 2011)! now that it's all new and shiny and tourist there's... nothing? once again Seattle idiocy strikes

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pleonasticTautology
@pleonasticTautology

as i said elsewhere, this is literally why i got a car. taking the bus to work at the aquarium meant either taking a bus downtown, walking downhill two blocks to pike place, dealing with the fish smell, walking across a long skybridge to an elevator, taking that down into a parking lot, then walking through it and across the street

or going to the international district and getting a free shuttle bus run by hotels

going home was either the shuttle bus or walking uphill THREE blocks cos the roads are one-way where the buses are

so i bought a car — alphy

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