Real-Time Information Signs Going Live On Route 44 Soon

Later this month, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will flip the switch on newly installed real-time information signs (RTIS) in North Seattle. Between Ballard and the...

Sunday Video: Autonomous Vehicles

Earlier this year, Jeff Speck, urban planner and author of Walkable City, gave a presentation to American mayors on the topic of autonomous cars....

Sunday Video: East Link Tunnel Mining Completion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcMkQlUt5Q0 Sound Transit recently completed tunnel mining in Bellevue for the East Link light rail extension. The mining operation was fairly unique for the transit...

Sound Transit To Buy New Buses for Stride BRT, But Some Could Be Lemons

Sound Transit plans a mix of articulated and double-decker buses for Stride, all of which will be battery-electric. Sound Transit is poised to move forward...

Sunday Video: How To Fix Our Unreliable Power Grid

https://youtu.be/5igJv_otlKE America’s power grid is increasingly more strained and unreliable as weather patterns and other environmental factors become more threatening. Vox explains how these challenges...

Sunday Video: How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream

https://youtu.be/oOttvpjJvAo Climate Town charts the history of how the car industry rapidly reset what the American Dream would be. The oppressive takeover has wrought a...

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...

Sunday Video: The Value of Data Sharing

Releasing data captured by government agencies in an accessible way to the public, has the potential to produce interesting insights about city life. Ben...