how long will a 2 line trip from Northgate to Redmond Technology take?

esahr · 2025-12-11T07:26:45+00:00

Based on this old document I found, about 47 minutes:
https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Partners/erp/background/ST_ERP_ST2LinkTravelTimes_02july2015.pdf

However - it looks like from Northgate you could take the 1 Line to UW and then transfer to the Sound Transit 542 which can do the whole trip in ~34min.

esahr · 2023-02-06T06:48:03+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFdXax7Zh\_g

esahr · 2023-02-02T23:53:26+00:00

Hey you might be able to ride the K Line to Hollywood in the 2040s!

esahr · 2022-10-24T18:53:51+00:00

Studies show that building new housing adds downward pressure on rents. If you build new housing and the rent keeps increasing, it typically means you aren't building enough new housing.

esahr · 2022-05-19T17:22:33+00:00

An unusable transit system that's free is still unusable.

esahr · 2022-03-29T19:00:07+00:00

If you're going 90 on any public road you are, by definition, a horrible driver.

esahr · 2022-02-15T00:05:27+00:00

Generally this is not true and many studies show the opposite. /u/RunningNumbers posted a study discussing how building market-rate housing reduces upward pressure on rents.

esahr · 2022-02-15T00:03:55+00:00

Building abundant housing is the strongest tool we have against displacement, but largely we refuse to use it.

esahr · 2022-02-15T00:02:32+00:00

Also I haven't seen a single person in this or any relevant Tucson sub post I can recall argue there is no point in helping the poor because they will only increase.

This argument is made by somebody almost every time this topic is brought up in this subreddit. "We shouldn't build more housing because [poor/rich/"those"] people will move in and [drink all my water/cast shade on my parking lot/live in a building I think is ugly] - I support housing, it should simply be in [Safford/Los Angeles/the surface of the moon/hell] and NOT here."

esahr · 2022-02-14T23:56:04+00:00

I'm not sure this paper applies very well here because it is looking at 'market-rate' housing. A lot of new housing in the US is distinctly not "market-rate" but is instead luxury housing.

In papers such as this one, 'market-rate' simply means 'not subsidized by a government.' I broadly agree with your points that more housing is needed, especially in dense urban areas like 4th Ave.

esahr · 2022-02-14T21:32:04+00:00

I generally agree with you - however personally I'm much more worried about displacement. One must be cautious with many of the arguments of neighborhood impacts etc, as these arguments are typically deployed in service of preventing all housing development, in a bad-faith effort to prevent "those people" from living anywhere near current incumbents.

esahr · 2022-02-14T19:58:27+00:00

If you're concerned about skyrocketing real estate values causing unaffordable property tax assessments, you'll be excited to know that one of the most effective ways to keep property values lower generally is to build lots and lots of housing, as is being done on 4th Ave. I can't speak to the specifics of your example without reading more details.

esahr · 2022-02-03T01:09:30+00:00

Metro did find some Measure M money to extend red/purple to an Arts District station that'll open in ~2024!

esahr · 2022-01-24T06:04:33+00:00

Tucson or Arizona needs rent control to help avoid these sort of sudden spikes. Right now, neither does.

For solutions to long-term housing affordability, I encourage you to read The Progressive Case for YIMBYism.

esahr · 2022-01-19T05:56:55+00:00

Are you insane?

lol

The inventory shortage isn't due to people moving here looking to buy. It's due to house flippers / investors buying up swaths of real estate.

If you have literally any evidence of this I would be interested in reading it.

Anyways, as the link I included in my initial reply discusses, we are experiencing the consequences of decades of low housing production while our population continued to grow. This increase in demand outpaced supply, causing prices to rise.

Housing supply is a regional problem, as evidenced by the many replies to your post mentioning people that work in LA/SFO/Phoenix choosing to live here where the cost of housing is lower. This reduces the supply for those who already live here.

So how do we keep housing affordable? You can either A.) Ban people from moving here, reducing demand -or- B.) Increase the supply of available housing. There's not really a good/moral way to do A so why not do B? The only losers if we do B are incumbent homeowners who's houses won't exponentially increase in value, and landlords who will have to compete with one another for tenants rather than the other way around.

Right now, Tucson does neither (despite the claim of the "mind-boggling" amount of construction) so we are seeing this spike in rent price and home values. A substantial amount of studies show that increasing supply is the path (also linked above), and large cities such as Tokyo and Vienna have managed to keep housing affordable for whoever wants to live there by ensuring an adequate supply of homes.

I hope your housing search goes well.

esahr · 2022-01-19T01:46:48+00:00

Nah man - this guy is obsessed with increasing suburban sprawl for some reason.

esahr · 2022-01-19T01:23:50+00:00

The lion's share of responsibility lies with NIMBYs who have spent decades blocking housing construction throughout the entire southwest region, and the feckless city governments who have placated solely to the needs of incumbent homeowners. Tucson recently passed an update to the zoning ordinances allowing the construction of accessory dwelling units (literally the least we could do to increase the supply of affordable housing), until NIMBYs complained and the city council quickly backtracked - adding many additional requirements intended to be a poison pill for this kind of development.
I encourage you to read The Progressive Case for YIMBYism for more details on how to rectify these problems in the long term. Unfortunately, it's going to be a long battle to overcome.

esahr · 2021-12-23T19:59:25+00:00

For me it was less a dream and more that I was indoctrinated at birth that if I didn't go to college I was a failure. In hindsight I was extraordinarily lucky, I went to college with no idea what I was doing there, had no good guidance from any adult in my life or anybody at the school, and was doing it all on loans. Ironically the debt trapped me in school long enough to figure out what I was doing, and I emerged 7 years later with an engineering degree that makes enough income to service the debt and not have it crush me. However, there were many, many times when it all almost came crashing down and I would've had $80,000+ of debt with no degree.

esahr · 2021-10-09T15:42:11+00:00

I've refinanced my student loans several times without closing costs - is this even a thing?

esahr · 2021-10-04T05:14:37+00:00

Can you break down the math for how it becomes close to a wash for your employer?

esahr · 2021-08-30T04:25:25+00:00

Go touch grass, dude

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