Technology

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...

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: Are Americans Ready To Love Trains Again?

https://youtu.be/Rsend-1FbaM Bloomberg News asks if Americans are ready to love passenger rail again. The story is heavily focused on Brightline in Florida and Amtrak’s recent...

Will Soil Save Cities from Climate Change?

After reading Kristin Ohlson’s The Soil Will Save Us, I was tempted to pack up and head for the countryside to become an organic...

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: Las Vegas Loop — Gamechanger or Complete Waste of Time?

Boosters of the Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop tout high capacity of individual Teslas operating through the single lane tunnels. Is this really the...

Sunday Video: Metro Systems With No Fare Gates

There’s a lot of talk about using fare gates instead of proof of payment in Seattle, but can proof of payment be just as...
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Transit App Gets Modest Year-End Improvements in Version 4.3.2 Update

Last week the Transit app got an update just in time for the holidays. App improvements include expansion of branch cards in all markets,...