Driving

Changing Freeway Names Offers Path to Removing I-5 from Downtown Seattle

The interstate is dead. Long live the spurs. As we work towards resolving the fate of highways in Seattle, there is some administrative closet cleaning...
I-5 through Northgate section of Seattle. Northgate Station rises on the right.(Photo by Doug Trumm)

State Commission: Replace Gas Tax with Road Usage Charge, but Keep Highways-Only Earmark

From February 2018 through January 2019, Washington state tested out a possible replacement program for the gas tax known as the "Road Usage Charge"...
A snarl of car traffic on 4th Avenue with transit and people biking on the margins. (Photo by Scott Bonjukian)

Skip the Ballot, Seattle Should Enact Road Pricing As a Pilot Program

What will it take to make congestion pricing a reality in Seattle? Depending on whom you ask, road pricing is either just around the corner,...
Ride2 vans were re-purposed from Metro's fleet and may go back to other services. Some include wheelchair ramps as shown. (King County Metro)

Metro Nixes Ride2 Shuttle, Citing Dismal Metrics, but Via to Transit Continues

King County Metro has been dabbling in on-demand shuttle services to entice riders to transit centers, but some of those pilot projects are floundering....
Two teens walk along the edge of Aurora with no sidewalk and streams of cars going by.

Fix Aurora Avenue Now

On Black Friday, a motorist attempting a turn from Aurora Avenue to N 39th St careened over the curb and plowed into a family...

Mayor Durkan Lowers Speed Limits and Announces New Vision Zero Agenda

Within 18 months, the posted maximum speed limit on nearly every single arterial street in the city of Seattle will be 25 miles per...

The Case for Burying I-5 in a Deep-Bore Tunnel

Interstate 5: It's ugly, ubiquitous, and almost universally hated. It's a wall that separates one side of Seattle from the other. It's noisy and...

Sunday Video: Black Friday Parking

https://youtu.be/-XscydK-3LI Dave Amos talks about parking regulations and parking demand in relation to the Black Friday shopping day. He also does a case study of...