Public transportation policy is like contraception: lots of people use it, but

Public transportation policy is like contraception: lots of people use it, but that doesn’t mean anyone wants to talk about it. The wonder of Seattle Transit Blog is that it finds ways to make even the most mind-numbingly nuanced aspects of transpo policy not only accessible but engaging. Witness the reams of comments most posts get—131 comments about the placement of the Link Light Rail station at Sea-Tac? We have to call entire genres of music “bullshit” to get that kind of traction. The bloggers have their biases—obviously they are strong supporters of mass transit—but they use that love to eviscerate King County Metro as often as they do car-obsessed lawmakers in Olympia. Which is comforting, because sometimes it seems like no matter how bad it gets on the bus, nobody wants to talk about it.