>the cultural animosity for cars has prevented effective expansions of the transit infrastructure
I'm not sure I understand this point? For one, if anything there's a clear preference for cars as the default mode of transportation.
I'm not sure I understand this point? For one, if anything there's a clear preference for cars as the default mode of transportation.
There are still many places in the region with only a single major north-south freeway. You can add all the lanes you want, but a single accident can take your 7 lanes of traffic out of commission. We need more transportation corridors to provide redundancy.
If Seattle never build another freeway, but keeps building trains and bus rapid transit we'll come out WAY ahead.
Building freeways gives you room for HOV lanes and busses, and even rail if you plan it right. Not building freeways is a demonstrably failed policy in the Sea-Tac region.
It's like how SF suspended the traditional criminal justice system before they had a working replacement. Sure, they'll get it right someday but in the meantime you just have to put up with a few decades of crime. But hey, one day it will be perfect and ideologically pure.