![]() ![]() In the late 1990s, the online-retail giant planted its first headquarters in Seattle, Washington, where it now employs 40,000 people and spans 8.1 million square feet.Īmazon's presence has fundamentally changed the city, according to Cynthia Brothers, a 36-year-old Seattle native. Harrison Jacobs/Business InsiderIn the past two decades, Amazon has grown from a startup birthed in Jeff Bezo's garage into one of the world's largest tech companies. Photos show how Seattle’s favorite businesses vanished after Amazon showed up - and it could be an omen for the HQ2 cityĬonstruction in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, the home of Amazon's headquarters. Actually let's be more severe than that to keep the transit advocates happy - let's discount car advertised mpg by 50% and assume that the train mpg is gospel (for once, what they say is the reality). So let's discount the average car's advertised mpg by 20%. ![]() Ii) Advertised mpg for cars can be optimistic the reality as we've all discovered comes in around 20% under (give or take) But the 2031 locomotive lifespan midpoint is 6 years beyond the Whitehouse mandate I) It will take time for the existing vehicle fleet to be replaced. Of course we need to adjust this downwards as: Whitehouse legislation mandates that the average fuel economy of new cars in 2025, that's 6 years earlier, will be 54.5mpg (Source: the Whitehouse). The locomotives are meant to have a lifespan of 30 years so this puts the midpoint of operational life at 2031. SMART is supposed to commence operations in late 2016. These are ultimately calculated based on "passenger mpg" and as with mpg the higher the number the better. If you dig deep enough, and it's nicely buried, you can work out the SMART trains' emissions. Questioning the Unquestionable - is it Really Green?īut this is where the cheap sales-trick falls apart. Also being Marinites we liked the sound of anything that sounded sustainable and green, and what could possibly be greener than a train? Surely that's common sense. It was worked out that we the taxpaying voters of Marin and Sonoma cared deeply about reducing 101 congestion. ![]() Then they work out which of the four elements you care about the most and before you know it the elements you fixated on are great and you're in the finance managers office signing away hundreds more than you needed to as the other elements have been twisted in the dealership's favor. You know the one - it's called the four square system. However SMART and its many advocates seem to be adopting the tactics akin to cheap car salesmen. My respect for car salesman right now is at an all time high having dealt with the highly professional Jim Leavitt of San Rafael and the truly amazing Steve Dolowitz of Petaluma Honda, who sadly passed away at the age of 56 in 2006. ![]()
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