The Chamber of Commerce is a rape basement.

Seattles homelessness will never end until homelessness worldwide ends. Unless you want to live in an authoritarian state, that is. Better to think of clearer, more sociologically achievable objectives and cultivate less spiteful rhetoric against certain demographics (older, white) whom unfortunately see to be inconvenient to the current progressive liberalism narrative.

dude sounds legit.

Thanks for the informative article on District 4's latest candidate. He sounds impressive.

"Isn’t it funny that light rail in historically white neighborhood travels underground, whereas light rail in communities of color is street level?"

The underlying reason is that racism makes whites wealthier than other ethnicities, and so these richer persons literally take the higher ground on which to live. Hence their mass transit runs underground, not on-surface or elevated. The Link Light Rail should have been elevated from Mount Baker Station all the way south, not at street level -- he's exactly right about that. (It's worth noting the decision to send the Link line down MLK instead of East Marginal was the intent to have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods along MLK - an attempt to mitigate the effects of the racism which made those neighborhoods heavily minority in the first place.)

I look forward to your interviews and op-eds by the rest of the council candidates.

International students should be able to vote?
Sheesh.

Where did such a young person get such a tired old argument about the light rail?

Yes, they should have buried it, but it was already way over budget. If they had elevated it, as Our Dear Tensor suggests, it would have been like having the Fifth Avenue Monorail the length of MLK, and people would have wrung their hands about how the "minority-owned small businesses" would have been "deliberately made invisible to the rich white tourists", having been "robbed of sunshine". (I was around at the time, I heard all the nonsense from the Save Our Valley nitwits. One particularly dumb email that was circulating said that light rail was bing built to make it safe for white people in the valley to go to Starbucks)

It will be interesting to see how far he gets in the process. Those rich old white homeowners vote. The denizens of the U District, not so much.

@9: You don't tunnel under a valley. That was (and is) the reason the light rail down MLK is not below ground. You are correct, budget was the reason it was put at-grade, but that merely makes light rail vulnerable to automobile accidents and other ground-based service disruptions. Plenty of white, mostly single-family neighborhoods in New York have elevated subway tracks running through them; it's not a big deal.

I looked at his line I quoted as more of an attention-getting one-liner than a serious criticism, which is why I pointed out there's really quite a lot to unpack in it.

"It's worth noting the decision to send the Link line down MLK instead of East Marginal was the intent to have a positive economic impact on the neighborhoods along MLK - an attempt to mitigate the effects of the racism which made those neighborhoods heavily minority in the first place"

Which is why I take Uber to the airport.

It must be terrible to go through life so frightened, Scenic Route, dear. Not to mention expensive.

He seems like an adorable little snowflake.

@13 What expense? $30-40 to the airport is dirt cheap. Take 20 minutes with uber/Lyft (door to door) vs 40 minutes on the train.

Maybe your time isn't worth much, mine is.

In fact, I know your time isn't worth that much, you're a government worker.

Is "forcefully entering" a building the new word for "buying"?

The day will come when Sound Transit is forced to spend big $$ to elevate the MLK section of the light rail. Running any form of rail at grade level is an embarrassment to any first-world city and makes the backbone of the system unreasonably slow. At a minimum, let's make sure they don't repeat this blunder for any other parts of the system (I have seen is suggested for the Ballard line).

@16: “ $30-40 to the airport is dirt cheap. Take 20 minutes with uber/Lyft (door to door) vs 40 minutes on the train.”

Paying ten times the light rail fare to save half the time suggests you’re not as good at the math thing as you think you are. (Also, paying an extra $30 to save 20 minutes makes sense only if you’re getting paid $90/hour or more.)

Scenic route, we know you're frightened, and that's OK. Life can be scary sometimes. But false bravado and excuses just masks the fear, it doesn't resolve it (as you well know, if you're being honest with yourself).

If you are more comfortable taking an Uber or Lyft, that is your prerogative. I'm sure any thought of travel fills you with dread, so you're probably well-medicated and wouldn't be a good "fit" for public transit. Plus, it's only once or twice a year. But you need to confront your anxiety, not enable it. Think of all the things you're missing in life because of an outsized fear for personal safety.....

I've asked the Slog Prayer Warriors (an invitation-only group of a few long-timers) to pray for you. And you better believe I've got a candle burning for you over by St. Odo's.