Transportation

Conservatives Seek Right to Kill Protesters with Their Cars

Last week, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an anti-protest bill into law, enshrining the right to run over protesters with automobiles and kill...

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...

Feds Add $604 Million in Relief for Puget Sound Transit Agencies

As a supplement to last year's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, additional federal funding has come through providing local transit agencies...

What Would a Real Bridge Maintenance Plan Look Like?

The Seattle City Council is contemplating issuing bonds for $75 million to be spent on bridge maintenance projects instead of funding $80 million in...
A construction stands on the underground station platform at Roosevelt Station.

Sound Transit 3’s Affordability Gap Shrinks to $7.9 Billion, So What’s Next?

In some encouraging news yesterday, Sound Transit shared an updated financial outlook for Sound Transit 3 (ST3). Revised projections show that the program affordability...

Amtrak Boosting Service in May with Four Daily Trips to Portland

The pandemic has meant a big curtailment in passenger rail service for Washington. Right now there's only thrice weekly long-distance service to Los Angeles...

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...
The new Northgate Station where light rail vehicles are being tested for a fall opening. (Sound Transit)

ST3: How to Get the Best Value Amid a Budget Crunch

With an $11.5 billion funding crunch and cost escalations in the Sound Transit 3 program, it’s clear that some cutbacks and delays may be...