Sounder Adds Wi-Fi to Tacoma Routes
This may be great news to many of you in this age of massive I-5 construction. According to Exit133 reader Andrew Becherer, Sound Transit has, with no official announcement or acknowledgment, put free WiFi in some of the Sounder commuter trains that service Tacoma. You’ll need to sit in the first car and… check out Andrew’s post for more details.
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3 comments
R Republican (By Default) March 11, 2008
I wouldn’t buy any property anywhere near any proposed, planned or current project that the city or Sound Transit is involved in or even dreaming about.
We all know how they treat anyone who gets in their way. They have no reservations about taking away anyone’s right to use their own property in the way it was intended.
This is just another example of how the government is hindering growth in downtown Tacoma. No grandiose project (Light Rail, Convention Center, museum, street car, etc.) will ever be able to erase the way they treat businesses and land-owners.
D drizell March 12, 2008
That’s a good point, Republican. The Gintz Group tried to develop condos on the old Fawcett House site at 19th and Fawcett and were essentially told to cease and desist by UWT, leaving yet another vacant lot within the UWT footprint to lie fallow and wait 20 years to be developed.
Though many have credited UWT for helping spur revitalization of the south end of downtown, the university’s recent bellicose stances may well have alienated many in the community and disrupted the once harmonious town-gown relations. The UWT seems to now have little regard for the immediate and future of Tacoma’s growth as a city, instead focusing its efforts solely to benefit the university and no one else. We should expect more of our public institutions.
Buyer beware: if you try to develop property within the UWT footprint, you will most certainly receive a nastygram from the UWT chancellor, regardless of how conforming your building is with the ill-conceived campus master plan.
J Jake March 12, 2008
And you will get a nice DENIED letter when you apply for your 8/12 year multi-family tax exemption.