• Kaffe
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    Apparently Washington has the 11th worst roads in the states. Considering just how garbage the streets are here, the 10 worst states have to be drastically bad.

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      I’ve been through some parts of Oklahoma where the highway was pretty much worse than driving on dirt

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      the roads even in Seattle are pretty fucking bad. even when there’s constructions, it takes like 6 months to fix one stretch of road. it fucking sucks

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        I visited seattle recently, and friends are excited that they’re building more train stops… that aren’t going to be finished for like 4 years. In China that’d be like a week at the rate they’re building rail.

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          oh yeah, that train line isn’t bad. it got extended to northgate, and they’ll be extending it further all the way to everett. but yeah, it’s the only real passenger train in the region, its very limited in it’s reach, it isn’t particularly fast, and like you said it’s taking forever to build. i think it’ll be done in 2024, so not quite as long as you said, but yeah - China could probably build HSR for half the state in the time it takes us to extend this one line.

          on a related note is the west seattle bridge. they discovered there was a fault in it in like 2019 or 2020, and said that it would take them like 5 years to fix it. so if you need to get to west seattle, fuck you