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Tableau is entirely in Fremont is it not? And also Expedia is moving to Interbay, which should make the area along 15th to Ballard... interesting. Long winded

Tableau is entirely in Fremont is it not? And also Expedia is moving to Interbay, which should make the area along 15th to Ballard... interesting. Long winded aside: Provided we can get some more high-capacity, high-frequency, separated-infrastructure transit going, I'm all for more concentration in Seattle proper. Amazon catches flak for their South Lake Union campus, but as a person with a background in urban planning, they did the responsible thing. A suburban office park would have been the irresponsible thing. In the ~decade that I've been here, Seattle is already vastly changed from what it was. In general, I think that's fantastic, we just need to do better at making sure that our rising tides raise all boats—in other words, we need to do better at housing affordability for everyone note working in tech. In the Bay Area, we have a cautionary tale. We can do this.

mulmen 9y ago
I'm almost certain Tableau started in Bellevue, I just didn't know they moved. When I was working on the eastside they had a big office downtown by the Microsoft towers. Expedia is moving to the old Amgen campus but currently they are still in Bellevue. I agree with your aside completely. What do you think of the light rail addition on I-90?
- peatmoss 9y ago
  Connecting downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue is a grand idea—a far better idea than connecting the airport to downtown. Both are major centers of employment. My understanding is that there are some technical / engineering challenges to running light rail across via I-90, but smarter people than I seem to think that they are surmountable. In principle, I think that light rail is just another transit technology, and an expensive one at that. BRT could easily be done in lieu of light rail. In practice, however, Seattle seems to do a terrible job at BRT. Rapid Ride got watered down to the point where I simply call it "bus red transit." So, maybe we can't actually build good quality BRT, and we need the huge capital expenditure of light rail to do it right.

mulmen 9y ago

I'm almost certain Tableau started in Bellevue, I just didn't know they moved. When I was working on the eastside they had a big office downtown by the Microsoft towers. Expedia is moving to the old Amgen campus but currently they are still in Bellevue. I agree with your aside completely. What do you think of the light rail addition on I-90?

peatmoss 9y ago
Connecting downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue is a grand idea—a far better idea than connecting the airport to downtown. Both are major centers of employment. My understanding is that there are some technical / engineering challenges to running light rail across via I-90, but smarter people than I seem to think that they are surmountable. In principle, I think that light rail is just another transit technology, and an expensive one at that. BRT could easily be done in lieu of light rail. In practice, however, Seattle seems to do a terrible job at BRT. Rapid Ride got watered down to the point where I simply call it "bus red transit." So, maybe we can't actually build good quality BRT, and we need the huge capital expenditure of light rail to do it right.