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King County Purchases 40 Battery-Powered Buses and Ponders Full Electrification by 2035

On Thursday, King County officials announced that new battery-electric buses would be hitting the streets late next year. The county is purchasing a total...

ICYMI: The Transit App integrates Uber into app service

Travel options just got better for users of The Transit App. On Monday, the app service was updated to integrate Uber, a ridesharing service,...

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...

Transit App’s Crowdsourced Real-Time Arrival Data May Soon Come To Seattle

Transit App is making another leap forward in the world of real-time arrival information. The software already plugs into real-time transit data where available,...

Sunday Video: Low or High Platforms?

RM Transit covers the great debate of whether low or high platforms are better for trains and what they even are.

Sunday Video: Why Dutch Klinkers Make For Better Streets

Not only are the Netherlands' brick streets more aesthetically pleasing than typical American streets, the modern klinkers (bricks) that make up most Dutch streets are just more practical. Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes dives into how brick streets are designed and installed, and what makes them better.

Sunday Video: How To Better Design Cities To Move Goods

Dave Amos of City Beautiful talks about how cities can move goods faster, more efficiently, and sustainably. Amos highlights some strategies that are being...

Sound Transit Launches New Link Real-Time Arrival Information at Stations

Link light rail passengers just got a big improvement. On Tuesday, Sound Transit launched new real-time arrival information at light rail stations to provide...