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		<title>Grace Under Fire:  A Thank You Letter to an Outstanding Metro Bus Driver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday I had the single worst public transportation experience of my life to date.  Before the incident, I tended toward a certain transit elitism, and I would often look down upon those who cite fear of crime and assault as reasons not to ride the bus, tending to dismiss such critics as sheltered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Bless Seattle: Gregoire Visits the City of No Freeways to Learn How to Build Freeways</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We seem to love depressing irony.  We enact stupid &#8220;sin taxes&#8221; on things like candy and soda while subsidizing the soy and corn that make them cheap in the first place.  Well, I can&#8217;t help but wince at Governor Gregoire&#8217;s itinerary yesterday. After an Amtrak Cascades trip north of the border, she toured Vancouver&#8217;s Canada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Gulf Spill Means to Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a hyper-technological age in which information is cheap and ubiquitous.  I am no Luddite, and I have benefited greatly from social media, but we must remember that both cheapness and ubiquity are traits indicative of  poor quality.  Not only do our Twitter-fried brains have 140-character attention spans, but I am convinced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pet Peeves That Matter:  Sloppy Publication Language</title>
		<link>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/06/pet-peeves-that-matter-sloppy-publication-language/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/06/pet-peeves-that-matter-sloppy-publication-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I apologize for the 3-week blogging hiatus&#8230;I have been moving from Vancouver BC back to Seattle.) Public agencies generally fail to market themselves adequately.  The unique (and frequently perverse) social incentives of government agencies often privilege breadth of communication at the expense of depth and structural clarity.  Official correspondence between agency and customer can thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Minutes of Hell: King County Metro&#8217;s &#8220;Rider Information System&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/05/6-minutes-of-hell-king-county-metros-rider-information-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/05/6-minutes-of-hell-king-county-metros-rider-information-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In these heady days of smartphones and OneBusAway, there isn&#8217;t really much of a purpose for call-in bus schedule information. Most of the time, a combination of printed and online timetables is sufficient. But occasionally some people might still need to call. King County Metro has an antiquated call-in system with recorded schedule information. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O Canada, I Hardly Knew Ye</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah and I are moving back to Seattle.  Sarah has followed a great opportunity in Seattle, and is now working for the EPA Library.  We&#8217;re heading back to the Emerald City in just 4 short days.  This brief post is addressed to Canada: Canada, I&#8217;ll miss you.  Staid competence never looked so good.  While our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stehekin:  Washington&#8217;s Perfect Carfree Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;m keen to do in this blog is diversify people&#8217;s perceptions of the car-free life.  It isn&#8217;t just for faux-European types living the bi-coastal liberal dream, or for crunchy urbanites who have forsaken our rural, pastoral, or forested landscapes in favor of the concrete and steel of the city.  If my goal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Unified Amtrak/Sounder Timetable</title>
		<link>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/04/a-unified-amtraksounder-timetable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/04/a-unified-amtraksounder-timetable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d pass this timetable along.  I made it a couple of days ago when I got tired of trying to remember both Sounder and Amtrak schedules.  I find these sorts of unified timetables pretty useful, and I hope you find them useful too.  For instance, making Sounder/Amtrak connections is quite possible, but given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should &#8216;Reliability&#8217; Mean?</title>
		<link>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/04/amtrak-cascades-reliability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Amtrak Cascades, and as a car-free resident of Vancouver BC who must frequently travel to Seattle, the two daily trains to Seattle are a lifeline.  I&#8217;ve made 8 round-trips in the past 9 months, and I find it to be a generally enjoyable service with unparalleled scenery.  People may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Cities:  Vancouver, Seattle, and the Perils of the One-Seat-Ride</title>
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		<comments>http://www.zachshaner.ca/2010/04/a-tale-of-two-cities-vancouver-seattle-and-the-perils-of-the-one-seat-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.zachshaner.ca/?p=338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to beat up on Seattle.  I love the Emerald City, and I have lived there quite successfully without a car.  But after living here in Vancouver for 4 months, I am unequivocally convinced that Vancouver offers far superior bus service.  Yet it isn&#8217;t immediately clear why this should be so.  Transit is everywhere [...]]]></description>
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