Civics and Culture

Dance!

"How you doin'?" I ask a man stepping in. "You know how it goes," he replied. "Some days chicken, some days Phillies." He didn't smile til...

On The (Bus) Porch

"I din' know you drive up this far," said a woman who usually rides my 7 only when deep within the bowels of the...

Downtown Seattle Association Envisions A New Multimodal Third Avenue

Third Avenue is Seattle's most prominent surface transit corridor in the city with over 52,000 daily passengers using buses. The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA)...
A bus on Rainier Avenue passes by as a pedestrian walks up the side street in Columbia City.

Op-Ed: Expand Urbanism, Emphasize Inclusion and Equity in Our Shared Vision

King County Council Chair Girmay Zahilay and Rian Watt make the case for a more inclusive urbanism: "To fully realize the transformative promise of urbanism, we must be willing to ask: urbanism for whom?"

More Than Health, More Than Money

You remember the old Breda trolley bus. Dinosaur is an apt descriptor not just because they were old, but because they were gigantic. Majestic. Capable, unpredictable, steeped with...

Midweek Video: How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods

https://youtu.be/w0cCF2pG13U From time to time, eminent domain in American has been used in unwise and unjust ways to demolish and remake neighborhoods. In this video,...

Midweek Video: Sound Transit’s New Trains to More Places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImjvDFOt-E Sound Transit has rolled out new Series 2 (Siemens S700) light rail trains. The agency showcases the features of their new trains that will...

Nathan Converses With His Colleagues: I

The cultures of bus driving here at Metro are many and wide. This job, so much more than others, is exactly what you choose...