http://gas2.org/2009/05/22/seattle-recognized-as-global-e-visionary-city/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Thu, 24 May 2012 23:24:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gas2.org/2009/05/22/seattle-recognized-as-global-e-visionary-city/#comment-9675 greenhuman Sun, 31 May 2009 06:38:01 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2432#comment-9675 I live in Seattle and have been writing about our sustainable infastructure for over two years now. I have to say that I completely agree with your assessment of "being surprised" at Seattle being chosen. Up until very recently, Seattle's solution to every transportation problem consisted of (1) adding more busses and (2) repainting and restriping the left lane of every freeway so 30% of the vehicles that use it are crammed into one less lane so that 3% of the people using carpools and busses can have that lane. Previous attempts at mass transit here have been ginormous boondoogles and don't even get me started about the failed monorail project and the ten of thousands of dollars that got flushed down the toilet because of that mess. I'll look forward to hearing with Mayor Nickles has to say. I live in Seattle and have been writing about our sustainable infastructure for over two years now. I have to say that I completely agree with your assessment of “being surprised” at Seattle being chosen. Up until very recently, Seattle’s solution to every transportation problem consisted of (1) adding more busses and (2) repainting and restriping the left lane of every freeway so 30% of the vehicles that use it are crammed into one less lane so that 3% of the people using carpools and busses can have that lane. Previous attempts at mass transit here have been ginormous boondoogles and don’t even get me started about the failed monorail project and the ten of thousands of dollars that got flushed down the toilet because of that mess. I’ll look forward to hearing with Mayor Nickles has to say.

]]> http://gas2.org/2009/05/22/seattle-recognized-as-global-e-visionary-city/#comment-32416 greenhuman Sun, 31 May 2009 06:38:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2432#comment-32416 I live in Seattle and have been writing about our sustainable infastructure for over two years now. I have to say that I completely agree with your assessment of "being surprised" at Seattle being chosen. Up until very recently, Seattle's solution to every transportation problem consisted of (1) adding more busses and (2) repainting and restriping the left lane of every freeway so 30% of the vehicles that use it are crammed into one less lane so that 3% of the people using carpools and busses can have that lane. Previous attempts at mass transit here have been ginormous boondoogles and don't even get me started about the failed monorail project and the ten of thousands of dollars that got flushed down the toilet because of that mess. I'll look forward to hearing with Mayor Nickles has to say. I live in Seattle and have been writing about our sustainable infastructure for over two years now. I have to say that I completely agree with your assessment of “being surprised” at Seattle being chosen. Up until very recently, Seattle’s solution to every transportation problem consisted of (1) adding more busses and (2) repainting and restriping the left lane of every freeway so 30% of the vehicles that use it are crammed into one less lane so that 3% of the people using carpools and busses can have that lane. Previous attempts at mass transit here have been ginormous boondoogles and don’t even get me started about the failed monorail project and the ten of thousands of dollars that got flushed down the toilet because of that mess. I’ll look forward to hearing with Mayor Nickles has to say.

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