Dear Sound Transit: Prioritize Rider Experience, Take a Mulligan on West Seattle and Ballard...
Sound Transit recently released updated alternatives for the Ballard and West Seattle light rail expansions. As Doug Trumm detailed here at The Urbanist, the...
Link Alone Is Insufficient, Puget Sound Needs Regional Rail, Too
Puget Sound is investing heavily in large transit expansion projects like light rail and bus rapid transit. These are critically important for moving people...
Is Sound Transit Closing In on Fare Gates for Link and Sounder?
An agency report obtained by The Urbanist lays out three key scenarios to implement fare gates with the goal of driving up fare compliance...
Seattle Seeks $5 Million Upgrade for Greenwood Signals to Save 1 Minute in Travel...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) spends millions of dollars per year maintaining and replacing equipment on its traffic signal system, which consists of...
Google Wallet Soon To Support ORCA for Fare Payment
Google Wallet will soon support digital ORCA cards and allow for contactless payment via Android-powered mobile devices. That will save many Puget Sound transit...
Sound Transit Plans Real-Time Arrival Soft Launch for Light Rail
Real-time arrival information may be coming to Link light rail in the next month or so, sorta. Sound Transit has begun testing of a...
Sound Transit’s Escalators and Elevators Are Broken Too Often, But A Better System Lies...
Escalators and elevators are a persistent problem for Sound Transit. The agency has had constant troubles at newer facilities like Capitol Hill and University...
Google Wallet Now Supports Digital ORCA Card Passes in Puget Sound
Forget your ORCA card? No problem. A new Google Wallet feature allows Puget Sound riders to buy transit fares on their Android or Wear OS devices.