As someone living in the suburbs near Seattle... You're half right. Mostly about the making driving (and parking) more inconvenient. In programming terms the

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.