Transportation

Mayor Proposes Dramatically Scaled-Back Seattle Transit Benefit District Reauthorization

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has finally unveiled her proposal for replacing Seattle's Transportation Benefit District, which currently funds a large segment of King County...
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More Ways Than One

Downtown Seattle is more than a central business district. It is a neighborhood 88,000 people call home. This neighborhood has the highest concentration of...

Everett Transit Rethinks Its Future, But Is It Time For A Merger?

Everett has struggled for years to provide a basic city-operated transit system under the banner of Everett Transit. Due to declining sales tax revenues...

GIG Has Launched Bringing Free-Floating Carshare Back to Seattle

GIG Car Share has finally launched in Seattle with service starting on June 30th. The service includes an initial 250 cars and limited homearea...
Route 40 briefly uses Market Street to connect to 24th Avenue NW, sharing a stop with Route 44. (Photo by author)

Seattle Planning Scaled Back Benefit District Transit Boost, with Car Tabs Blocked

Transportation funding is in serious peril due to a perfect storm, but there could be help on the horizon. The storm started in November...

Sound Transit Shores Up Tacoma Link Budget and Receives TOD Code Grant

Sound Transit has allocated additional funding to the Tacoma Link extension project to shore up the budget. Costs have primarily risen from unforeseen right-of-way...

Sound Transit Capital Program Realignment Process Slowed Down to Mid-2021

The Sound Transit Board of Directors are punting on a realignment program of capital expansion projects for at least a year, allowing current projects...

Sunday Video: Should Cities Keep Open Streets After The Pandemic?

https://youtu.be/WWRBnDNbAR4 Dave Amos argues why open streets being rolled out during the pandemic should be made permanent.