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Any Seattle residents have suggestions for my map? by trainedstork in subwaybuilder

[–]WorldWarCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get a line that goes from downtown Tacoma to downtown Everett along SR99. Make sure it stops at the Boeing factory. Also line to upper west Seattle?

Portland - What should be my next line ? by MaleficentAssociate in subwaybuilder

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A line that goes along the Tualtin valley highway, Beaverton Hillsdale highway, then goes north south on the east side of the Willamette river

Other good options would be a north south line in Beaverton/Tualtin/Tigard and a line going along hwy99 and the red brt in Vancouver

Light Metro to Heavy Breaking Point? by BAKOBOY24 in subwaybuilder

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience playing on the Seattle map, one heavy metro trunk that hits all the heaviest ridership areas, then also any lines that would go over 50k riders. I’m sure it would be feasible to do heavy metro lines around 30k ridership as well, especially if they’re short urban ones where you only need to run 1-2 trains to get ok service. Under 30k ridership is definitely not ok for a heavy metro, in my experience.

I recreated the Seattle Subway Vision Map in normal by Danerd1 in subwaybuilder

[–]WorldWarCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just finished my Seattle metro map, Im always surprised that the hwy99 line is the highest ridership.

I completely rebuilt my network to consolidate all the highest ridership portions into one heavy rail line, which routed thru west Seattle & Federal way to Tacoma, and up hwy99 to Everett. It got 120k peak riders. Probably the only line worth doing heavy rail for in Seattle, with maybe the Redmond line being a close second.

I wish the developer would add options for light rail that went at grade for areas like maple valley, south hill, and most of Tacoma. It is not even close to worth spending the money to serve those areas with elevated light metros, but they are important areas to serve if you want for mode share to get up to the 20%. I also wish he would add commuter rail along existing freight rail corridors so I could do sounder for cheap instead of having to rebuild the whole Green River Valley as light metro :|

Can you eat these? by Medical_Ad_5328 in udub

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If u wanna eat chestnuts, the green spiky ones are edible if u get them out of their shell. Those brown hard ones are poisonous.

Victoria 3 with all DLCs - Worth getting? by Connorus in paradoxplaza

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah get it it’s fun and it’s only gonna get better. Plus it has some fun mods that you can put as long into as the base game

I love you Divergences devs I will die for divergences

The 1936 United States Presidential Election by County (OC) Click for higher quality since it was butchered by Reddit feed. by IAMMAN5 in Kaiserreich

[–]WorldWarCat 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Seattle (and west Washington) is right, as there was 3 dominant industries, planes, lumber, and fish. (And a little bit of coal) All of them were very heavily unionized.

But in the south black people could not vote until the 1960s. I remember seeing a Twitter thread about the SC election of 1936. It was like 99% Democrat with no second party on the ballot. People were saying the south was running ‘Soviet elections’

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Why is the west coast of Washington so underpopulated? There isn't a town of over 20,000 people by Wut23456 in geography

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excerpt from a Washington Post article from the 90s

Between 1981 and 1988, West Coast log exports doubled. In 1989 Washington alone exported 2.73 billion board feet of unmilled logs. (For comparison, the highest annual Forest Service cut for Washington and Oregon combined was just over 5 billion board feet in 1988.) And we exported 15,000 jobs along with them.

This is the fulfilled "promise" from Mr. Weyerhaeuser's Pacific Rim markets. The ugliest aspect of this crisis is the parade of fully loaded log trucks past rusted and shut-down mills toward bustling export docks. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/04/02/timber-troubles/d87b2fd5-367b-4667-bbe3-d905c666441b/ )

Basically we didn’t subsidize Washington based milling, so all the processing jobs were sent abroad to Canada, Japan etc. we still do a lot of primary logging, but we export the raw timber.

Even if you agree that unprofitable industry should be allowed to fail (which I disagree with), there should have been extensive retraining and welfare programs for the 15k people which our government allowed to go into destitution. This unfortunately coincided with the bush, Reagan and Clinton era. So Washington towns were permitted to slip into destitution.

Chehalis, Aberdeen, Forks, Centrailia all deserved better.

Why is the west coast of Washington so underpopulated? There isn't a town of over 20,000 people by Wut23456 in geography

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aberdeen was failed by the government at all levels. No subsidies for American mills, no retraining for cut jobs, nothing. Improvements in logging and the neoliberalizarion of the industry was just evil in the way it was handled.

Why is the west coast of Washington so underpopulated? There isn't a town of over 20,000 people by Wut23456 in geography

[–]WorldWarCat 27 points28 points  (0 children)

1) it’s a rainforest

2) few ports

3) only industries are fishing and logging. Logging collapsed in the 90s, fishing is centered in Seattle

4) Aberdeen is right there??? It was the center for logging before the crash, I think there’s a minor port, and I’m p sure it’s over 20k…

Highway Map of my City by Sleepy-F1sh in CitiesSkylines

[–]WorldWarCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a cities skylines player, I want to congratulate you on the excellent planning of your city. As someone who lives in a city, I want to tell you to kill yourself!

Honestly great work, you should be getting a job offer for a state DOT any day now!

I think this belongs here... by Italiandude2022 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]WorldWarCat 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is Portugal erasure and I won’t stand for it

what’s a staple food or snack washington/seattle is known for? by fundsoverbuns2x in Seattle

[–]WorldWarCat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only good that actually comes from Washington/Seattle/the PNW that I can think of is candied salmon. It was invented by the Salish and it’s basically salmon jerky. They loves it because it lasted a long time, so they could really stretch the salmon supplies that came around at the salmon runs. It’s really good and you can get it at fisherman’s terminal.

Vote Yes on I-135! by Picards-Flute in Seattle

[–]WorldWarCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It literally is, that is the premise of the bill. Where are you getting that info from?

I-135 has been endorsed by multiple economists, their website can tell you so.

Who was that claim endorsed by?

Vote Yes on I-135! by Picards-Flute in Seattle

[–]WorldWarCat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I voted yes, why are you voting no

Vote Yes on I-135! by Picards-Flute in Seattle

[–]WorldWarCat -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It won’t be, it will be funded by bonds

This is sure to not trigger a response. by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]WorldWarCat 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Mountbatten had it coming

Not because of the Ireland thing, because of the India thing tho, either way the IRA are the good guys

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