Freight Advisory Board Pushes Back Against West Marginal Bike Lane in Secret Meeting
The Seattle Freight Advisory Board devoted a significant portion of their April meeting detailing reasons that the City should not install a protected bike...
Metro Reveals Tiered Plan for RapidRide I Stations
A RapidRide line is coming to Auburn, Kent, and Renton in 2023 to provide more than just a more frequent and faster bus. King...
What Seattle’s ‘Keep Moving Streets’ Could Look Like This Summer
During the height of the pandemic last year, Seattle Parks and Recreation teamed up with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to create what...
Midweek Video: Metro’s New Eastlake Bus Layover Facility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqMgUoNKkU
King County Metro will construct a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E and is still in the bidding phase for construction. The...
Five Ways Senator Hobbs’ Transportation Package Is Truly Backward
As the end of the legislative session draws near on April 25th, the question of whether Washington will pass a new transportation package looms...
New Bellevue and Woodinville Eastrail Segments Anticipated to Open in 2021
Underway in the Eastside is an effort to unify isolated railway-turned trails into a regionally unrivaled trail. Named Eastrail in 2019, the planned trail...
Meetup Video: March 2021 with WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar
https://youtu.be/fhIPaQoJk7U
This month, Roger Millar was the guest speaker at The Urbanist's regular meetup. Millar is Secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation. He...
SDOT Stresses Maintenance in Spending Plan for $20 Car Tab Fee
Details of how a new $20 vehicle licensing fee (VLF) in Seattle that could raise $7.2 million per year would be used for transportation...