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I read "fantastically car-hostile" as a pro car-hostility statement.

• loeg 7y ago
  I had the opposite take. Usually when I read opinions colored by "car-hostile," it's from authors who advocate for car-maximized infrastructure.
  • intopieces 7y ago
    I used to term car-hostile as a step beyond "pro-transit," because cities can be pro-transit while still not doing enough to actively reduce the number of people getting into cars. Seattle is not just making riding transit more convenient. They are making driving more inconvenient.
    • mjevans 7y ago
      As someone living in the suburbs near Seattle... You're half right. Mostly about the making driving (and parking) more inconvenient. In programming terms they're ripping out a deprecated interface without having first provided a replacement to transition to. Yes there are park and ride facilities outside of the core city, but they're specced for local capacity. The gateway interface would be much more like replacing several warehouses near the tram line and freeway with GIANT, actively police monitored, parking garages. On the north end something similar probably needs to happen near the northgate mall, and if the extension up through the U doesn't go there it needs to. THEN after the pre-requisite work is done, they should just ban all cars from the city outright.