So, about that train fiasco… Sound Transit has released a full accounting of what went wrong on November 26 when a train stopped in a tunnel and passengers were left to escape on their own with no information. The short version is that there were a bunch of failures: The trains weren’t tested with heavy post-game loads, the tracks had sticky-outy bits that Sound Transit knew were causing damage but didn’t fix, and staff didn’t.
In the immortal words of Ryan O’Neal, “oh man, oh God, oh man, oh God, oh man, oh GOD!” Which is to say, there's an election happening right now. Yes. Another one. It truly never ends. This time it’s the King Conservation District, which is about to hold an election for an open seat on the Board of Supervisors — a body that most people do not even know exists, as evidenced by the stunningly.