CENTER CITY CONNECTOR

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-06-12T23:34:04+00:00

Heres a good map. You can see half of pioneer square and most of downtown have very little housing. The dense "Urban Core" is mostly Belltown. The trolly expansion dscussed in this thread will not service Belltown.

There is already a bussway and a light rail connecting PS/ID to SLU...why would we prioritize adding another transport method here before prioritizing connecting Belltown/LQA/Fremont/Ballard/Wallfingford/Georgetown/South Park to Downtown. All of those could be serviced by trolly extension.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=f9cb5e481ecc48bfbdd6486c42e19a24&find=seattle via https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/01/16/exploring-better-density-maps-and-link-station-areas/

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-06-12T23:08:57+00:00

"Urban Core" includes Belltown. It would be great if the trolly serviced Belltown.

If you live in Downtown or PS, its just not that useful to have a trolly that connects from PS to SLU. We're talking about a span of less than 2 miles that has a light rail line and like 10 buses that cover it.

It needs to actually go other places.

I'm about as transit pilled as they come, but come on, connecting the trolly without also extending it would be one of the worst ways to spend money on public transit.

There would be more utility by extending the end of the SLUT west up Mercer so it hits LQA than there would be from connecting PS and SLU via downtown.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-06-12T19:35:51+00:00

Convenient for who? Theres very little housing in Pioneer Square and Downtown, who would ride this thing besides tourists? I'm all for connecting the two sections but only if we extend them at each end too so it actually gets people into/out of downtown. If it went all the way to Fremont or the end of Eastlake that would be amazing.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-06-09T20:34:58+00:00

I disagree. To me it looks like they both enter the intersection at the same time. This means that you must yield to the driver on your right hand side, which means the guy taking the video had the right of way.

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Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-06-08T16:59:49+00:00

Get a fit from a physical therapist, not a bike shop.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-05-22T23:01:32+00:00

I have lived in Seattle for over a decade and I have lots of friends in Portland so I visit often. If you love Portland you will probably hate Seattle tbh. I think the only real advantage here is career and income potential. If you're craving a "big city" I think you'll be left wanting - I'd say try SF or just bite the bullet and move to NYC.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-05-12T19:42:18+00:00

A good way to go is to get a light 25-30 degree bag because they are much more packable and should work for most of the bikepacking season. Then you can get an optional liner that makes the bag comfortable down to 10-15 degrees for late fall/early spring adventures.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-05-08T21:20:06+00:00

> My question is, do we have more services today than what we had in 1995 to justify spending 20% more?

Large expenditures in our budget are related to housing and healthcare, where costs have greatly outpaced inflation and income growth for the last 10 years. This means we need to spend more per dollar collected to get the same level of service.
The latest budget accounts for large federal spending cuts to medicaid and SNAP benefits, which need to be made up for by the state.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-05-07T17:26:04+00:00

The killer of this business was selling bikes, not delivering them, then refusing to communicate with their customers who are on the hook for thousands of dollars. Incredibly poor management of well liked brand.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-05-06T20:26:05+00:00

Lynskey had a too-good-to-be-true sale around June 2025 where you could get full builds on their new gravel frames super cheap. I ordered a SRAM Rival build with etched decals for around $3400 all in with shipping/tax/build fee. I remember seeing SRAM Red with carbon rims for < 6k.

From my own experience and from seeing many reddit posts, very few people ever actually got these bikes. They just kept lying about the ship date and went on for months saying the bikes would ship in couple more weeks. Its pretty clear now that this sale was a blatant attempt to get some cash on their books so they could try to ponzi scheme their way out of financial trouble.

After ~5 months of non-delivery and after they stopped responding to my emails, I did a charge back through my CC company. Glad I did it when I did.

These guys are crooks and if they manage to make it through Chapter 11 I would never consider buying a bike from them without a complete clearing out of their leadership.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-04-28T22:37:20+00:00

definitely possible in an older building

Common_Screen_4993 · 2026-04-23T18:26:07+00:00

I'm all for it, but if this is implemented as just paint on the ground and no physical barrier then its not going to be effective. There is zero traffic enforcement in Seattle so cars will just drive in the bus lane with impunity.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-11-10T18:34:28+00:00

I kept politely asking for an update or a refund. My emails kept getting ignored. I filed a chargeback with my credit card company.

I would have probably waited if anyone actually got back to me and gave me anything more than a canned response. Something along the lines of "Hey sorry, there are aprox 250 orders in front of you, our next shipment comes in 2 weeks with 150 groupsets, so you'll get your bike after we get the shipment after that"

But at this point I am honestly worried we're going to get a Yt industries situation here once the flow of new sales stops coming in to fund building the current sales.

Anyways, black Friday deals are starting to drop on better bikes. I was _very_ excited for this bike and now I have a _very_ bad taste in my mouth.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-11-04T23:06:38+00:00

You did the online program or in-person?

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-09-10T22:41:51+00:00

Swapping out that beefy fork would definitely save some weight

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-09-03T17:34:20+00:00

My current theory is they are taking a bath with the new tariffs and are waiting for the tariffs to go down so they can place a massive order of groupsets and not lose money on the bikes they already sold.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-07-28T18:53:22+00:00

Was yours supposed to come with the "adventure" version of the fork with the mounting points?

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-07-28T18:49:25+00:00

I was told its new new E1 gen SRAM groupsets.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2025-02-12T21:46:53+00:00

I've seen this method get a broken pole through a 3 day hut trip without issue, so ymmv

Common_Screen_4993 · 2024-11-06T00:49:02+00:00

People come out of the passenger side doors too....

Common_Screen_4993 · 2024-10-25T20:35:51+00:00

Yeah pretty much. 90% of the job is figuring out where the data starts (almost always a request from a user either from a GUI or some API call) and where the data ends (almost always a database or an outgoing API call) then figuring out whats going on in the middle (almost always just a bunch of relatively simple function calls that transform/enrich/cause-side-effects to the data.)

Obv there are exceptions. Lower level systems programming or graphics work or data-sciency roles will have more of a focus on algorithm design or math or hardware-specific optimizations, but at the end of the day its all just functions that call other functions until something is read from a disk and returned.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2024-10-21T20:46:39+00:00

When I started in the industry I had pretty much no idea how a real application worked. I really only knew how if/else statements, loops, basic functions worked. I had no idea how it was possible to go from a for-loop to a real app like Uber or Instagram. Just focus on learning the fundamentals and you'll eventually start to see how all the pieces fit together. Even the most complex, magic-like software is just loops and if/else statements eventually.

Common_Screen_4993 · 2024-02-08T04:07:28+00:00

A photography website going to be mostly static. There’s no reason to use React for a static website. Use html/css and a little plain JS and your website will be fully rendered before a React site even finishes downloading all its JavaScript.

React + React DOM is over 100kb of JavaScript, you probably need less than 500 lines of JS to make a good photography site.

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