Yearly Archives: 2017
Sunday Video: Subterranean Christmas Train
https://youtu.be/HXouL-s5pBo
Every year around the holiday, New York City Transit runs special nostalgia trains from yesteryear. Trains run on Sunday with many festive riders in...
What We’re Reading: Tragedy in DuPont, Bussed Out, and Tilting at...
Tragedy in DuPont: Earlier this week, an Amtrak Cascades train derailed just south of DuPont killing three passengers--including two local train aficionados ($)--and dozens of...
SR-520 Cross-Lake Trail Opens Improving Options to Walk and Bike
A new cross-lake trail opened Wednesday on SR-520, making it easier to walk, bike, and skate across Lake Washington. The trail was years in...
A Newcomer’s Guide to Finding Home in Seattle
The idea of “home” came to the foreground when I moved to Seattle from the greater Detroit area where I was born and raised,...
Sound Transit Outlines 2018 Legislative Objectives, Approves Budget and Tacoma Dome...
The Sound Transit Board of Directors met this afternoon to act on a variety of end-of-year motions. A key action item was outlining the...
Seattle Rings In the New Year with Free Late Night Transit...
Responding to criticism about a lack of late night transit service on New Year's Eve, King County is not only extending service to 4am...
Post-Derailment Amtrak Cascades Running New Daily Trips with Some Changes
On Monday, the first Amtrak Cascades run on the new Point Defiance Bypass ended in tragedy. Sadly three passengers lost their lives--including two well-known...
Mid-Pilot Check-in: Bikeshare Ridership Grows but Rides Per Bike Plummets
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) released a few bikeshare data morsels to the Pedestrian Advisory Board last week. Seatte's system of privately-operated free-floating...