Seattle Opens 3 New Train Stations for Light Rail and Ice Center for the Kraken NHL Team
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- Join me as I check out the 3 new Seattle Light Rail train stations: U-District (near the University of Washington), Roosevelt, and Northgate. The latter station is home not only to Northgate Mall (the first mall in America), but also the brand new hockey training facility for the Seattle Kraken, our city's first NHL hockey team. Let's take a walk through them and discuss whether it was worth the money.
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Looks like a great system overall. Very efficient for a US system. Those trains are nice and modern too. I’m impressed
Like your advocacy of transit, car-free neighborhoods and livable cities!
It will aid our effort in addressing climate change.
I’ve subscribed!
It would be such an asset to so many cities. Portland's light rail which I think is all on ground level is pretty extensive; however, they began the project forty years ago. Cost is so prohibitive to do what they need to and many cities aren't even as far along as Seattle's system. Love the NHL team team. I suppose they will use the term from Greek mythology -" Release the Kraken". Always enjoy your videos.
Nice video very well presented. The light rail line looks terrific. Unlike the light rail system down here in San Jose which for the most part is a joke especially when compared to Seattle and San Francisco light rail. i’ve always loved Seattle, the city, Puget Sound, the ferries and even the public transit which is far better than anything here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Be glad and proud of what you have as public transit. I used to work for Boeing and used to go to Seattle quite often. Now I’m retired and I haven’t been there in 30 years. I hope to make it to Seattle at least once more in my lifetime. I want to ride the lovely light rail system for the first time. Also I want to get out one the water via the ferries. i truly miss that. Thanks for giving me some incentive to return.
Really good honest review of the systems expansion. I believe the Seattle area needs this system and it is a long time coming but I share the same fiscal and management concerns as you do regarding how much time and how much of our tax dollars have already been spent over the past two and a half decades.
Unfortunately I feel like transit authorities such as sound transit tend to take for granted how much money is available for them to spend. In other countries where the budget is much more tight and there isn’t any alternative funding they are often more careful about both the design and the execution so they can make sure that every part of the budget goes as far as possible. Every dollar that goes towards study after study after study is a dollar not going towards something that is actually tangible and serves an important utility to the community
Exactly!
Seattle celebrates opening a new light rail station for the Kraken NHL team. It's a great facility. Thanks for sharing the video.
Well that’s a good video, I’m glad u took the time to make this one, I found it very informative please keep updating. Long time fan
Great video and honest commentary. I’m looking forward to trying the light rail from Northgate to Westlake and then up to the monorail for Kraken games. You got yourself a subscriber!
The Roosevelt district is a bit more than up and coming. I used to live in a house about five blocks from the station. It would sell now for well over $1 million. It was a cool neighborhood 30 years ago when it was affordable. I think that the Roosevelt station has a moose because of Teddy Roosevelt's running for president on the Bull Moose Party ticket in 1912.
I really enjoy you and your wife's videos. Thank you for putting these critiques together. It sheds light on both the good and bad. As someone who would like to move to Seattle, even if only temporarily, I find these very informative and realistic. Thank you again! 👏
Thank you! We have many more coming
@@GeminiDiscover happy to hear that looking forward to watching!
Very well put,
This video was very well done and in depth.
Thanks!
As more and more people ditch their vehicles the trains will become more and more crowded, yes/no? During the Covid crisis many mass transit systems were unavailable. I am an advocate for making some roads walking districts, but there is a political push to get rid of cars altogether. That I cannot get behind. Btw, I would love to see the Las Vegas Strip a walking district with a raised mass transit down the middle. Great video as usual... thanks.
Thanks for watching! I totally agree
Las Vegas already has a monorail that goes up and down the strip. Not sure if anyone rides it.
@@tjshere206 It runs down the back side of the East side of the Strip, which is not very convenient. Have you ever walked from the monorail to the Strip through MGM Grand? My proposal is one right down the middle of the Strip.
@@PICTUREthisPLACE316 Last time I was in Vegas, the monorail wasn't built yet. Raised in the middle of the main road seems like a much better solution. Strange they didn't do that in the first place.
Similar situation here in NY. Big push for anti car policies, but it’s mostly the more affluent who can afford to live in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the inner city. Working class people have been getting pushed into the outer boroughs and where mass transit is less accessible yet we work in the city and need ease of transport for our cars. Bit of a sticky situation, do you prioritize the living standards of the affluent and the local environment or do prioritize the lower and working classes who hold up your local economy 🤷🏻♂️
love this video aslo love seattle
Nice video!~!!
Nice job on video!
Thanks!
Thanks for the tour but one correction: The first stations opened in 2009, not 3 decades ago. Another line to the east and several expansions north and south are coming online within 3 years (somewhere along 20 new stations in 3 years if my memory is correct). Further down the line in 2030ish is another subway line downtown connecting Ballard and West Seattle as well.
Yes Seattle got a slow start and is certainly expensive, but in 20 years its system will absolutely be world class with a total of 190 km and 70 stations currently approved and funded.
If you look back the project did begin in 1995. It was extremely slow to get off the ground and continues being slow
@@GeminiDiscover no there was initial funding which could have been allocated back in 1995, but no construction ever began, and when it’s comes to construction being slow, I don’t know what your talking about, funding just came in with sound transit 3 and, construction for this extension was on time and under budget
Unless I’m wrong but so far I’m pretty impressed although your definitely right the system could be much more expansive
I can't believe homie is just saying his thoughts out loud. But great video👍It looks like the city of Seattle is on the right path to having a fully walkable city.
Whose thoughts am I supposed to be saying? 😆
Seattle takes pride in their work, the light rail is a work in progress. They started the light link rail from downtown to the Airport before they started going from downtown to Northgate. The train used to turn around at Convention Place Station. Watching free practice? That's cool. Maybe UW will get a Huskies Hockey Team soon, that would be cool too, there's a idea UW, think about it.
BTW It's Seattle the city hires consultants for homeless organizations to tell the homeless organizations HOW to get money from the city; yes it's stupid and wasteful, however I still love Seattle. If you went to college in Seattle or have ever lived in Seattle you're used to this kind of stuff and you just go "eh whatever" :) Oh and sir? Seattle IS a real city.........
Have you use the water taxi from downtown to west seattle?
I didn't use it in this video,, but yes,, the water taxi is a great way to get to West Seattle from downtown.
I don’t think the concrete is THAT bad. And plus, I would prefer to have less decorations but more stations/service.
Exactly, and when it comes to the criticism about this taking 26 year to complete is utter nonsense, because the entire line only opened in 2009 which is only 12 years ago for this entire system to be opened
OPENED in 2009. Try to find out when it started before you say stupid things. It was voted on in 1996
@@GeminiDiscover yes but construction only began in 2003, it’s not if the second things are voted on you can start construction, you have to secure funds first which takes years, you have to conduct studies which take years, and it only took 6 years for link to open, which for USA is pretty good, you can say the US is slow all you want, but it’s not as if the US is alone in this, Britain has been building the Elizabeth line for many years, and it’s years behind schedule, Berlin delayed opening of their new airport for 10 years, the only countries that really get things done on time are China and maybe some other Asian countries, China for obvios reasons because they don’t have to worry about all the political issues other countries have to worry about, even japan the rail nation faces delays, chuo Shinkansen is years behind schedule, for USA link light rail is actually doing pretty good, and Seattle will have quite a good network with high quality , mostly grade separated rail soon
@@GeminiDiscover Voted on doesn’t mean that’s when planning/construction started. The planning, construction, and implementation of the Link Light Rail is actually pretty quick for North America. Construction of the initial segment started in 2003 and completed in 2009. That’s 6 years of construction for a significant portion which is really fast for North America.
7:15 there are areas like that, even bigger and better all over the country, especially in midwestern cities.
people on the internet fail to understand how big and diverse the US is and alway generalize base on limited information.
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man is it me or am i feeling like we are so close tho the future?
we are for from it lol. EU , China, and Japan are ahead of us in infrastructure
Need more money for north
The city never wanted a mass transit system this goes back to the sixties.
Wrong, this transit project was approved by voters
They run out of money because these systems cost so much they are almost always a combination of local, state and Federal funds. And getting Federal grants is a long arduous process to get sufficient funding.
These trains are crazy slow...
Yeah that's one problem with them
They actually can accelerate faster than that. It just depends on the signaling, speed limits and time between trains. I saw one of video it accelerated pretty fast.
They top out at 57mph/92kph between Capitol Hill and UW stations.
Oh I forgot to add that if you want see slow? Check out San Francisco light rail. It’s the slowest light rail system in the USA. You could just go faster walking than the train literally.
Sure. But before this train, could you take a bus or drive from Westlake Station to the U District station in less than 10 minutes? (No.)
They never have enough money because the federal government decided to finance construction of local transit meaning the federal bureaucracy had to butt its nose into every little thing. I'm sure compliance with Federal rules and regulations increases the cost by at least 50% meaning fewer miles get built meaning builders don't attain as much expertise meaning costs remain high.
Do you want some cheese with that wine go home if we are not good enough for you
Bigotry is not going to solve your problems
Unfortunately, Seattle is not a safe city to walk and bike. There is a large homeless (drug users) camp just east of North Seattle Collage. The walking bridge could be very unsafe. Not usable at night. And most of those concrete walls in the stations will be covered in graffiti in no time. Notice how that once beautiful mural you walked by was destroyed by graffiti vandals?
No police around to protect you ether. Sorry to be negative but that's the city people voted for.
The results of capitalism.
I'm from the Bay area California,Seattle is way cleaner and safer opposed to where im from, be great full for the beauty yall got. Otherwise come to cali and see what we deal with.
@@devonyagartrell2220 I’m from the Bay Area too and this is so true lol
@@AshmewStudios Exactly and I live in the East Bay crazy ass Richmond lol
@@devonyagartrell2220 Depends on which part of the Bay. Most of the Bay Area is actually quite safe - Places like Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Burlingame, etc. San Jose I believe is the safest big city in the country. But there are certain sections of the inner East Bay which are really ghetto. Seattle Metro has large swatchs of gritty/sketchy areas in South King County and Pierce County, but nothing I would call ghetto in the same way that Richmond is. However, Seattle also doesn't have the string of super wealthy communities in the Penninsula and South Bay and Marin County.