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^{June 6, 1997
Uncategorized}

Second train to B.C. on track by autumn

_{June 6, 1997
Uncategorized}

A second daily Amtrak run from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., through Snohomish County appears likely, possibly as early as this summer. Money to operate the second train to Canada is included in the massive transportation package approved by the Legislature last week, and now only needs the signature of Gov. Gary Locke. He is expected to sign today.....Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Project and former Snohomish City Council member, also worked to start a second Amtrak train. "For Everett, Edmonds and Snohomish County it will be a real benefit," he said Wednesday. Someday there may even be a third Amtrak train to Vancouver, he said. More Amtrak trains, and the arrival of Sound Transit commuter runs between Everett and Seattle by the summer of 2001, is creating a "rail culture," he said. "We're building people's experience of riding the train, both commuter and intercity," he said. "It may help relieve congestion on I-5." Agnew's Cascadia Project encourages the connection of high-speed passenger trains between Vancouver, B.C., and Eugene, Ore., to airports, ferries and local buses. Read More ›

^{June 5, 1997
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Tunnels suggested as I-5 fix

_{June 5, 1997
Uncategorized}

If you can't widen Interstate 5 through Seattle, or add another highway above it, why not dig down and put in an underground level or two? That's one of Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman's 15 ideas for improving the flow of people and goods between British Columbia and Oregon. Chapman was looking long range - well into the next century -- during a talk yesterday at a luncheon for national and Pacific Northwest transportation officials as well as members of Congress at the Edgewater Hotel.....Among the suggestions: Extending Sound Transit's commuter rail lines to Olympia and Bellingham; Developing a "Cascadia inland (transportation) corridor" from central British Columbia through Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon to California, taking the pressure off of I-5; Building a new I-5 bridge across the Columbia River; Replacing Seattle's "seismically challenged" Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel. Chapman said later that the overpass is likely to come down in a strong earthquake. Budgets weren't discussed, but Chapman and his institute suggest tolls and a regional development bank to cover some of the costs. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
June 1, 1997
Technology}

Inventing the Internet again

_{George Gilder
June 1, 1997
Technology}

In the early 1960s, working on America’s second-strike capability, Paul Baran conceived the Internet. Now he wants to save the Net itself. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE as an engineer, Paul Baran was “scared stiff.” That can happen to people who stumble too close to the abyss of 20th-century history and look over the edge. Born in 1926 Read More ›

^{Jonathan Wells
June 1, 1997
Intelligent Design}

Evolution and intelligent design

_{Jonathan Wells
June 1, 1997
Intelligent Design}

“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.” George Gaylord Simpson (1) Where did you come from? Are you the result of a mindless, undirected process, or are you the handiwork of a purposeful Creator? According to several Gallup polls, only about ten percent of the American people believe in Darwin’s Read More ›

^{Kathryn Lindskoog
June 1, 1997
CS Lewis}