The second "Belltown" listing you have is not in Belltown - that's plain old downtown.

Could we get a cab stand at Westlake (or maybe just some signs as to its location, from within the light rail stop)? I take the light rail from the airport, and am otherwise basically never in Westlake, and the process of getting out of the light rail station and across town is just not engineered well.

@1, thanks for the fix.

@3, We're collectively clawing our way out of short pants!

It wasn't all that long ago that it was ILLEGAL to hail a cab on the street in this city -- I want to say about twenty years ago?

In a real city you don't need cab stands because there are enough cabs on the street that the quickest way is to just jump out into traffic and hail one, but this is a step in the right direction. Also: big hotels. It's going to make the biggest difference in places that don't have cabs on the street much -- they should put one in Wallingford and The Junction too.

I saw the taxi stand announcement on my block in Fremont this morning. Lots of media.

Fremont rules!

@1 nah, that's the part of Belltown where rich kids go. You didn't think they'd put it in the dangerous areas did you?

@5, one day Fnarf..one day that will be the case when our children's children will be able to wave one of the plentiful cabs in our fair city and go where they need to go from any of the major population areas in Seattle. One day...just not today.

And that is what I LOVE about Chicago. Many parts of Chicago with substantial density you can wave a cab down pretty easily. My first time there I was visiting a friend who lived near boys town and I suggested calling a cab. (He lived in a residential area without any businesses to speak of) He told me why call for a cab? Just go outside and wait a couple of minutes....

@5 - Used to be cabs would migrate in such numbers that it would turn the streets yellow for days. Then the white man showed up and hailed them nearly to extinction. That's why those regulations were needed.

@5 I never quite understood that law. One of the most exciting moments in my Seattle pedestrian experience was hailing a Frontier Cab @ 1am while on the phone waiting for Yellow Cab. I felt so cosmopolitan, being able to just point at someone and have them drive home without a intermediary. Come to think of it, maybe the WSLCB is behind the "no hailing cabs" law. They seem to be behind so many other ridiculous nanny state laws.

Love the way the system panders to drunks.....Can we get pizza de,livery to MMJ patients now for real....

@11 and MJ users if 502 passes.

I'm the king of drunken cab hailing in Seattle. Seriously, I never have an issue grabbing a cab, the key is to know the best corner to wait.

Cab stands are a stellar idea, but how long until the inevitable outcry from the people that live above the proposed stands?

@7, I have a friend who lives in Chicago and once hailed a cab after stumbling drunkenly out of a bar at 4 AM, asking the driver if he could drive around the blocks for a while, as he seemed to have forgotten where he parked his car. Only it wasn't a cab, it was a police car. That's REALLY drunk. The best part is, the cops drove him around until he spotted his car and then sent him on his merry way.

@6, you've never been in Belltown in your life, have you?

@13 um, you mean like me? Half a block away - that end of the block is zoned commercial in Fremont back 2 lot sizes.

We're in favor of cab stands, cause right now the drunks roll up the street and bother us while they try to get in their cars.

And then smash into our cars. Or try to break into our houses.

Those are currently some of the very easiest places in the city to find a cab. Still, I guess it's a step in the right direction for a kind of cleverly resigned workaround for not being able to improve late night bus schedules to cope with closing time crowds.

Ballard?

@ 9 - I heard you could walk across their hoods from one side of the street to the other without ever touching pavement!!

Man, those were the days.......

@ 2-- it's never taken me more than a minute to hail a cab coming out of Westlake Station. (Admittedly, I've only done this a handful of times.) Have I just been lucky?

I've always just gone to the cab stands at the hotels...I've never had a doorman refuse to let me take a cab from there, they're usually really nice about it, especially if you give them a tip.