Transit App Rolls Out New Batch of Refinements
New improvements have come to Transit, a versatile trip planning app, focused on providing better information about real-time arrival information and vehicle location. The...
Midweek Video: Are Shipping Containers Overrated As A Building Method?
Shipping container homes have become all the rage in recent years. But they're not necessarily as practical as they might seem when it comes...
Sunday Video: Trolleybus Technology Makes San Francisco’s Transit Superior
Alan Fisher of Armchair Urbanist dives into how San Francisco is ready-made for electric trolleybuses and has a robust network of them today -- just like Seattle. Fisher explains why they're better than battery-electric buses and how, with a little effort, San Francisco could widely expand electric trolleybuses with strategic investments to almost every corner of the city.
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...
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...
Metro Debuts New Digital Arrival Signs with More to Come
Since the start of Northgate Link service this month, King County Metro has brought online a network of new digital real-time information signs (RTIS)....
Vision Zero Is About Road Design
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been on a marketing blitz lately promoting Vision Zero. There have been Facebook ads, web videos, and...
Car2Go is now integrated with The Transit App
The Transit App just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, software engineers behind the app enthusiastically announced the roll out of a new transportation service to...







