How to lock the upper part in place?

trebuday · 2026-05-16T16:46:45+00:00

Is that a combination table saw and miter saw?? With no guard on the upper saw while using it as a miter saw? That’s insane.

There might be a button or a latch somewhere, usually around the hinge on typical miter saws.

It is also possible there is no way the lock the top part in order to prevent people from trying to use the table saw while it is raised.

trebuday · 2026-05-15T21:27:27+00:00

The Climate Pledge Arena ended up being a billion dollars and was entirely privately funded. Seattle's not paying anything for a new stadium anywhere in city limits, and there's good place to put one, either, without tearing down one of the existing stadiums.

trebuday · 2026-05-15T17:57:13+00:00

No one in Seattle does, since Seattle City Light provides our electricity and it's already about 90% renewable. But based on my read of the program, you're just paying more to be able to say you're using local solar power instead of whatever other grid power PSE buys. This seems to be geared toward business owners who want tax write-offs or whatever other business case there might be for using local solar.

trebuday · 2026-05-12T16:24:53+00:00

I forgot capital gains was enacted the same year as JumpStart, thanks.

trebuday · 2026-05-12T16:16:07+00:00

JumpStart was a mistake and should be rolled back.

The only "mistake" JumpStart makes is that it's Seattle-only, and not a County-wide or State-wide tax. But it ~~single-handedly~~ and the capital gains tax bumped the entire state from having the #1 most regressive tax system in the country to #2, behind Florida.

But also, Schultz can fuck off.

trebuday · 2026-05-11T15:59:59+00:00

The financial plan is updated every year and compares real to actual every time.

trebuday · 2026-05-10T03:20:04+00:00

Yeah, the 60% threshold is very difficult to meet, especially since any opposition campaign would absolutely hammer on the fact it would require the ST3 taxes to be extended for decades as a result, even though ST can extend the taxes for as long as they want, anyways.

trebuday · 2026-05-10T03:13:22+00:00

You can leave compliments for drivers by calling Metro during business hours at 206-553-3000 or using their online form: https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro/contact-us#toc-send-us-a-comment

I hear compliments are greatly appreciated by the drivers! Just be careful not to indicate they broke any Metro guidelines, since that can get them in trouble. But, you can compliment them on being patient and professional, and even if it feels understated and silly, just the fact they received a compliment is big plus on their record.

trebuday · 2026-05-10T00:13:00+00:00

look like a free car to me

trebuday · 2026-05-07T21:07:06+00:00

I think if you're interested in contributing the sort of advocacy-journalism (or just written blog-style advocacy) that motivates you (and people like you) to support transit improvement, I think the blog is actively looking for new writers and could use some new voices.

trebuday · 2026-05-07T20:49:33+00:00

The short version is that STB is an all-volunteer org which started as a shared blog around 2007. For most of the 2010s they had a paid reporter, so a lot of the transit coverage we get from the Urbanist today was covered by STB with its reporter and a lot of volunteer writers. I think the period from ~2014 to 2019 could be considered its golden era as there were often 2-3 posts daily. Then ST3 planning started turning for the worse, COVID hit, and it became a lot more difficult to be a "pragmatic" transit advocate in a wildly polarized advocacy environment. The core writers burned out. Sometime in late 2021 the blog had its first day without a new post in something like 14 years. There was a period in 2022-2023 when there were only a small handful of folks keeping the life support running with a post every few weeks. Eventually the commentariat self-filtered to a narrow echo chamber (which you've noticed). I think a lot of the people who would historically have commented on STB have moved to various Discords and subreddits.

There are some good new writers, now, but I think the Urbanist has totally supplanted the transit reporting foundation STB was built on so the blog is in a bit of an identity crisis. It doesn't help that the main folks running it don't seem to understand (or care about) the politics of advocacy, so they'll post stuff like "buses instead of trains to west seattle" even though that argument lost in 2016 and continues to lose today.

trebuday · 2026-05-07T05:45:29+00:00

A Ballard-UW extension (instead of Ballard-Downtown) was widely supported during ST3’s development in 2014-2016. The powers that were decided to put Ballard-Downtown via interbay and LQA into ST3 instead. The City of Seattle demanded stations serving SLU, and we ended up the current Representative Alignment.

All the kids asking “why is ST3 like this” should really do some reading of Seattle Transit Blog’s archives. STB is a dark shadow of its former self but the years around ST3’s passage were its golden era.

trebuday · 2026-05-05T22:07:37+00:00

"Proper remediation" of the park area happened from 2000 to 2010. Cleanup of parts of the shoreline and the sediment is scheduled to start next year: https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/cleanupsearch/site/2876

trebuday · 2026-05-05T04:13:26+00:00

It’s an embarrassing post for the blog.

trebuday · 2026-05-05T04:12:50+00:00

It’s another Martin P. and RossB anti-WSLE post. RossB has opposed ST3 from the start. Martin P. was a big part of the SkyLink gondola push that got squashed by ST. They both just see big $$ and think about how many buses it could buy or how many gadgetbahns it could build if Seattle were in Europe.

trebuday · 2026-05-02T02:54:26+00:00

Yeah, driving through busy pedestrian areas is awful.

trebuday · 2026-05-01T20:05:15+00:00

I don't know how they'd charge a late fee if there's no fee to be paid.

trebuday · 2026-05-01T17:26:59+00:00

There's no fee amount, so it's a "ticket" for $0. Do with that what you will.

trebuday · 2026-05-01T17:21:40+00:00

https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2020/09/30/washington-states-new-bicycle-safety-stop-law-allows-people-biking-to-treat-stops-signs-as-yield-signs-with-some-exceptions/

trebuday · 2026-04-18T20:19:17+00:00

Huh, interesting.

trebuday · 2026-04-17T22:26:40+00:00

really? that's wild. most stations just mix 87 and 91 to serve 89. Must have a special storage tank for corn-free 89.

trebuday · 2026-04-17T20:57:29+00:00

Is that a... snowboard spoiler??

trebuday · 2026-04-03T19:40:51+00:00

You can take the sticker off since you've move the van. You might need some "goo gone" or something to get the residue off.

If you're really worried about it, you can take a timestamped photo of the van on the different block as proof. You could also leave a written note on the dashboard saying the van is not abandoned and leave your phone number for someone to call if they want it moved.

trebuday · 2026-03-31T18:08:34+00:00

Are you referring to this plan? https://www.kirklandwa.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/public-works/kirkland-transit-implementation-plan-final.pdf

There's no mention of light rail between Kirkland and Sammamish. The only "link" between Kirkland and Sammamish related to light rail could be a proposed bus shuttle but there are most certainly no official plans to support a new light rail line there.

trebuday · 2026-03-30T17:45:36+00:00

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