Transportation

Sound Transit's streetcar in Downtown Tacoma. Work on Tacoma's Hilltop streetcar extension continues, but further extensions are shelved until Sound Transit grapples with Covid-related budget impacts. (Doug Trumm)

Transit Agencies Ask Feds for $36 Billion to Weather Covid Recession and Keep Projects...

Sound Transit hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship. Joining 25 other transit agencies from...

Sound Transit Prepares to Unfreeze Dozens of Halted Projects

More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took...

Amtrak Cascades Stuck in Low Gear, Gets New Rolling Stock

Service on the Amtrak Cascades corridor is likely to remain reduced for quite some time. One daily roundtrip between Seattle and Eugene will continue...

SDOT Inching Toward West Seattle Bridge Repair Plan

Four months into the West Seattle Bridge closure, we do have some answers but plenty of lingering questions, too. The Seattle Department of Transportation...

House Bill Proposes $205 Billion for High-Speed Rail as Part of Economic Recovery

A bill to fund the rollout of high-speed rail across America was recently introduced in the House of Representatives. The proposed policies would get...

Sunday Video: The Fake Facades of Paris

https://youtu.be/iXSkjw0Kytk In Paris, fake building facades are a surprisingly common urban feature to aesthetically hide certain infrastructure.
U.S. Route 2 in the heart of Leavenworth. (Google Maps)

WSDOT Supporting Low-Stress Streets and Pop-Up Commerce on State Highways During Pandemic

Washington's state transportation department is launching a temporary program that will make some lower-speed highways available to open streets and commercial uses during the...

Ideas in Open Streets: Bothell, W.A.

Bothell has opened up its Main Street for retail and restaurants in the age of social distancing. For a block of the city’s traditional...