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> Seattle should look to a city like Vienna +1 on this. The Vienna transit system is so fantastic that I was able to get around the entire city without even sp
by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Seattle should look to a city like Vienna
+1 on this. The Vienna transit system is so fantastic that I was able to get around the entire city without even speaking German. I remember one day I was riding the U-Bahn with a local friend and asked him what it was like during rush hour. He said, "this is rush hour". There was still plenty of space for people in all wagons. Simply amazing.
- stephengillie 9y agoSeattle feels like numerous tangentially-connected villages, mostly based on how it was formed: - Downtown's financial district and retail core, with the jail, hospitals, churches, and other services (like the methodone clinic and drunk tank) on First Hill. - Capitol Hill's "crazy night life". - Queen Anne Hill with normal-ish people. - Magnolia's rich separation. - Ballard the Scandinavian fishing village. - Fremont and Wallingford - the artist and hippie communes, the University District, and Ravenna. - The International District and The Jungle. - Beacon Hill and Rainier Beach, where the action happens day or night. - SoDo (Southern Downtown)'s industrial core. - Lake City feels like the "northern SODO". - West Seattle feeling closer to Seatac than Seattle.
- uiri 9y agoWhere I'm from (Toronto), we have a name for these different areas within a city: neighborhoods.
- stephengillie 9y agoA few of Seattle's neighborhoods seem to flow together, such as Wallingford and Ravenna being so overrrun with students that they feel like extensions of the University District. Others, like West Seattle, feel more like the small cities of White Center and Seatac that neighbor it.
- tomjakubowski 9y agoThat’s actually the ideal situation for a mass transit system. It ensures that passengers aren’t largely going in one direction in the morning, and in the opposite in the evening.
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