A gondola will never, ever meet the traffic demands that the west Seattle light rail will handle out of the gate. These gondolas are “projected” to hold 10 people each. To match the light rails 80,000/day current ridership, there would need to be 8000 gondola trips/day.
This is a clutch of NIMBY business owners who are either up to be eminent domain’ed working with rich residents that want west Seattle to continue to seperate from Seattle proper.
Its absolutely wild that the neighborhood that was effectively “islanded” for over a year because of a bridge failing is actively fighting mass transit options into and out of the neighborhood.
They said those same things in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook!
Put up plans for a monorail and then I’ll be listening. This is just bull hockey.
I subscribe to this community by RSS feed. I saw the headline and ran over to this thread as fast as I could.
The light rail is going to come with displacement. My kids go to Mode Music, which will be displaced. We love the Skylark and hang out there regularly, which will also get the axe.
It’s a super bummer because we love those places, but a gondola is fuckin crazy talk.
Ain’t. Fuckin. Happenin.
Dense residential is the future and the Delridge neighborhood is primed to do it. It’s affordable by Seattle standards and there’s a ton of ground ready to build to the sky.
As if Sound Transit needs any more reasons to delay and rethink and collect community input on the West Seattle link.
What happened to the Pike St. Gondola plan? I was told it was “a sure thing”, a “lock”, “absolutely going to happen”. It’s almost like all these gondola proposals are grifts designed to extract money from the region while providing zero benefits!
