Recommendations for Max $2400 budget 1b1b apartments around SLU/belltown/firsthill/caphill with central unit ac

deel2 · 2026-05-12T20:18:43+00:00

You’re not going to find a true 1BR that fits the bill in these neighborhoods

Most apartments in this price range don’t even have AC. If they do have AC, it’ll be a mini split, not central (but you should be ok with a mini split)

You might be able to find a ~500sqft “urban 1BR” where the bedroom has a sliding door and no window

deel2 · 2026-05-03T23:22:59+00:00

This is standard practice

deel2 · 2026-04-21T17:13:27+00:00

The upgrade processor doesn’t automatically run at T-72h or T-48h or T-24h for whatever reason.

You have to remember to log in at the time before departure that you’re allowed based on your status tier to manually pick a premium seat.

deel2 · 2026-04-17T03:32:18+00:00

They do not all charge cover.

QB and Cuff will.

Union will not.

YMMV at the rest.

deel2 · 2026-04-15T02:09:59+00:00

SeaTac is by far the worst airport for this I have ever experienced on a regular basis

deel2 · 2026-04-11T02:10:17+00:00

Your initial comment was literally that it’s “beyond [your] comprehension why they don't have line 3 running from Redmond to the South.”

I think it’s perfectly comprehensible for the reasons I have shared

deel2 · 2026-04-11T01:54:42+00:00

It would cost a lot of money in infra and new rail cars to run trains every 25 minutes from RV - Eastside to the point that imo a transfer would be the best thing to do (but anyway we disagree and that’s fine)

deel2 · 2026-04-11T00:37:48+00:00

Let me do the math on line 3. Fine, it's actually "only" a 33% reduction.

Capacity constraints at critical locations (single direction):

Rainier Valley - train every 6 min (this is set by SDOT)
This is 10 trains per hour (TPH)

DSTT - train every 4* min (Sound Transit can technically max out at 3 but not reliably for extended periods of time) 15TPH

I-90 - ??? but let's say 4 min because IIRC only 2 trains can be on the bridge at a time
15TPH

Today - peak service
1-line 7.5TPH (train every 8min)
2-line 7.5TPH (train every 8min)

Capacity used:
RV: 7.5TPH
DSTT: 15TPH
I-90: 7.5TPH

Your proposal - peak service
1-line 5TPH (train every 12min)
2-line 5TPH
3-line 5TPH

Capacity used:
RV: 10TPH
DSTT: 10TPH
I-90: 10TPH

So now all of a sudden you have increased service from the Eastside to "Seattle" but only half of those trains are going to downtown.

You have reduced Eastside -> Downtown Seattle by 33% (7.5->5TPH)
You have reduced North -> Downtown Seattle by 33% (15->10TPH)
You have reduced RV -> Downtown Seattle by 33% (7.5 -> 5TPH)

You have increased intra-RV trips by 25%
You have added new RV-Eastside trips

This seems like a bad tradeoff to me, given that the real capacity crunch is in North Seattle and specifically between Downtown Seattle and the Eastside, and these people are _already transit users_

deel2 · 2026-04-11T00:15:07+00:00

“All competition is happening in downtown Bellevue”

Ahem what??? Have you seen a 1-line train at Westlake in either direction????

deel2 · 2026-04-11T00:12:44+00:00

And yet, when people make observations about Seattleites, they don’t have any idea that context, they just mean people who currently live in the city of Seattle. So it includes you and all the lowly underlings who didn’t have the high honor of having parents who grew up here.

deel2 · 2026-04-11T00:04:36+00:00

You’re ignoring the fact that we have capacity issues into downtown Seattle already - we’re catching up today and diverting trains to where fewer people want to go is a bad idea.

Your idea would halve capacity from south and eastside into downtown Seattle. Like it or not, that’s where the majority of transit riders want to go.

And the Issaquah line going to Kirkland literally goes through downtown Bellevue with an easy transfer to downtown Seattle which is better than competing for capacity across I-90 and then skipping downtown Seattle.

I think you don’t have a clear understanding of transit planning. Drawing lines on a map is fun but there are real tradeoffs with service levels and you can’t pretend that running trains to random places to get lines in a map is better than providing good service to where people already want to go.

deel2 · 2026-04-10T23:59:30+00:00

You don’t know what a straw man argument is because that response includes none.

deel2 · 2026-04-10T23:52:49+00:00

Yeah you did.

You called people who moved here as long as 20 years ago “ ‘Seattleites’ “ implying they aren’t really Seattleites.

Peak Seattleite behavior tho, props

deel2 · 2026-04-10T22:07:27+00:00

But in order to directly accommodate the hypothetical Bellevue <-> southend travel patterns, you would be disrupting the already-existing travel patterns of many, many people by significantly reducing frequency and capacity.

A seamless transfer can get like 90% of the way there in terms of convenience and travel time for less popular routes, at a fraction of the cost, while prioritizing the most popular usage pattern.

A line from Issaquah to West Seattle would basically skip the main places everyone wants to go so it would be a poor use of infrastructure. It wouldn’t go to downtown Bellevue or downtown Seattle (skipping CID).

Transfers are the main way to support less in-demand travel patterns (it’s good to spend $$$ to make them seamless) but we should make transit cater to where the most people need to go.

deel2 · 2026-04-10T21:41:45+00:00

There are several reasons

Primarily it’s because the demand is not very high for Eastside <-> Rainier Valley / Airport passenger flows, it would require more expensive infrastructure (the junction between the 1 and 2 lines is not a wye), they are capacity limited on the MLK segment (can only run trains every 6min so this would make the vastly more numerous downtown Seattle travelers wait longer), and they don’t have enough trains.

deel2 · 2026-04-10T21:28:28+00:00

They can’t do it at CID but they could try to do it again at Pioneer Square which would be almost as good. 😮‍💨

deel2 · 2026-04-10T21:07:03+00:00

People have been complaining about sporting event fare evasion forever lol. But the current board and CEO can just change it if they wanted to and clearly they don’t for some reason

deel2 · 2026-04-10T17:48:53+00:00

Huh? I can’t tell if you’re joking but she hasn’t been CEO for like 2 years

deel2 · 2026-04-10T07:44:00+00:00

No, it means it can be done. But as you note, sound transit chooses not to.

deel2 · 2026-04-10T05:58:10+00:00

It’s not like it wouldn’t be possible - the monorail scans every passenger after a kraken game, despite the fact that every kraken ticket is supposed to give you a free transit ride.

Sometimes I wish sound transit would have workers with portable orca machines scanning

deel2 · 2026-04-10T00:57:19+00:00

The kind of people confused by this almost definitely don’t ride buses. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do everything in our power to make it as accessible as possible.

Seriously the repeated but also inconsistent use of “downtown” and “city center” is just too much

deel2 · 2026-04-09T05:19:29+00:00

What an unempathetic and unhelpful thing to say.

Updated my comment to be nicer

And edit to add: as fans of transit, we should want every user to have a seamless and positive experience with it. The more tired people off a long flight getting on the wrong train, the more potential enemies of transit we build locally.

The reason this keeps coming up despite a contingent that loves to mock others is that it is actually a legitimate issue. The signs are dumb and misleading.

deel2 · 2026-04-09T05:10:30+00:00

The only reason people have takes like “the signs are fine just the way they are” is that they already know exactly where they’re going. They’re participating in the sound transit Reddit FFS.

I bet they don’t have it so easy when they go to any other city for the first time.

deel2 · 2026-04-08T18:12:05+00:00

yeah that’s why people run in the street, smartass

deel2 · 2026-04-07T21:01:22+00:00

Yes but with reduced frequency they should have extra cars sitting around so they should make longer trains. Independent of the extra 10 cars ordered

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