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Did you know Sound Transit is thinking about running rail through Wallingford? Well, they never came to Wallingford to ask, but they are in fact planning it. Hell, I wouldn't have known if Mike Ruby hadn't told me, and he didn't even know until a week and a half ago. You might think "that's nice, maybe I'll use it", but if you think that then you clearly don't understand what adding light rail means. Light rail costs over a half billion dollars…

The SPS Wonkathon votes have been very one sided in favor of Rick Burke, so I'm going to compress the last two wonkathon posts into one here and eliminate the vote. When you have an imbalanced situation like this I don't see a point in dragging things out. I would like to thank both candidates for taking part, and I look forward to working with victor in the election to address issues with Seattle Public Schools going forward. Sherry Carr did a…

A little known erstwhile awesome thing in Wallingford is that Interconnection offered $80 per year broadband via Clear wimax to anyone with a student in the house, meaning if you had a kid in school you qualified. Yes, no need to be poor, you get semi-broadband Internet for less than $7 per month! Yeah, only about 3 MBPS, but still, $7! Fortunately, it's not too late to switch to far more superior options such as compareyourbusinesscosts.co.uk/. Well, the cheap times end in…

The Move Seattle Levy will request $277 per year from a typical homeowner, and that's only 1/4th of SDOT's funding and doesn't even include Sound Transit. In other words, about $2000 of your annual rent or your annual property tax bill is going to pay for congestion relief, primarily trains and buses (non-motorized transportation has less than 1/10th the level of expenditure, and WSDOT is funded through the gas tax). Do we really want to fund our transportation systems by making housing affordability…