12 mini-reviews for the short attention span, taken from dark corners of stevenl's video vault:

Looks like a great place to build, huh?

Your children can play at the superfund site next door after they build the Children's Museum on it.

The mayor when it's built (not Mah, he'll have abandoned his post to run for state senate by then) will sit about where that island is.

Looks like this site is a regular quack magnet.

From a local website, seeminlgy based on this article from a conservative magazine:

Quietly but systematically, the Mah/Clarkson administrations are advancing the plan to build a huge Oly/Lacey Super Highway, one/fourth a football-field-wide, through the heart of the Olympia, from the Lacey border at Komachin Middle School to the Tumwater border north of the cemetery.

Once complete, the new road will allow cars from the far east of Thurston County to enter Olympia through the Lacey's Mullen Road , bypassing the downtown Olympia exits in the process. The suburban cars, without passing by the highway sign for the Urban Onion, will drive on what will be the county's most modern road straight into the heart of Olympia. The Lacey cars will cross the border in two lanes.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Lacey segment of the Olympia Lacey Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various local government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private neighborhood and homeowner associations have been working behind the scenes to create the Olympia Lacey Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The Olympia public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North Thurston County Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater are about to drive into reality.

In my months of reading Olympia city council packets every Friday, I had read of and heard rumors of this project. I had always scoffed at the myth. There was simply no way the maze of roads and suburban subdivisions in SE Olympia and Lacey could be straightened to make such a road possible.

But, after seeing the evidence slowly mount before my eyes, I can no longer but believe that such a monterous project is coming.

I know I am new to the area and there is much I have yet to learn, but when I received my first full sewer/water bill today, I was shocked at the amount. The bill is literally about three times what I am used to paying.

The breakdown: 1) city sewer charge, 2) LOTT treatment, 3) resident base rate, 4) water consumption, 5) storm water, 6) utility tax.

Essentially this seems to mean that we pay to transport the sewage material from our residences, to treat the sewage at the LOTT facility, an obligatory "base rate" which has not been fully explained to my satisfaction, general water consumption, storm water, and finally a utility tax as the grand finale.

If I didn't know better I would think that either we have a brand spanking new waste water treatment plant and the facility is passing startup costs on to the consumer, OR there is some sort of sewer treatment Cosa Nostra profiting mightily on Oly effluent.

Hello All, while taking an espresso at the Cafe Vita, I picked-up an copy of the "Bicycle Paper" Winter 2007, and read the editorial on pg. 11 by Maynard Hershon, "Are They America?"...I just have to say >wow<.

I'd like to quote the editorial a bit to stimulate some thoughts and conversation, and also in memory of those who have lost their lives on bicycles in Thurston County this year. Please share the road in 2008 and let us all work towards zero fatalities amongst pedestrians and bicyclists in the South Sound for 2008.

From the editorial:

"If a driver uses force or the threat of force to intimidate cyclists, what is he or she but a terrorist?"

--terrorist, no; but an inconsiderate driver, "yes".

I'm frightened by inconsiderate drivers, but not terrorized (yet). I'm curious if anyone on the OlyBlog has ever felt terrified while bicycling, and/or has anyone been frightened/terrified by bicyclists?

any thoughts?

Too bad it's made in China, and the price is still high.

150-200 miles per charge is getting into the useable range. And it's a real car not a funky 3 wheeled freak show. It would be nice if it has some nicer lines, more people might consider it. Although with fuel prices climbing, and rumors prices may hit 5 bucks a gallon, who knows maybe people will be ok with the looks of an old mans car.

An article is here http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/04/03/afvi-show-tell-me-is-the-miles-javlon-30-000-all-electric-sed

Pics are here http://greyflcn.blogspot.com/2007/04/affordable-electric-car.html