Staying at Home Helps Us Envision a Future of Climate-Conscious Travel
In the midst of the public health emergency, worldwide stay-at-home mandates have resulted in significantly fewer people traveling by car or airplane. Scientists have...
130 Miles of Open Streets Is Just What the Doctor Ordered
The Urbanist has been urging the City of Seattle to pedestrianize streets and create a safe biking network for years, but the pandemic has...
Metro Restoring Some Bus Trips To Meet Demand, Installing More Social Distancing Signage
King County Metro has, for the second time since the pandemic started in earnest, restored some bus service as of Monday. The transit agency...
Seattle’s Densest Neighborhoods Need Open Streets Too
On Friday, when the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced its third set of streets open to people walking and rolling, calming them for...
Stay Healthy Streets Expands in Ballard, Lake City, Aurora, and Delridge for 20 Miles...
Walking, rolling, or biking through Seattle got a little easier thanks to another expansion of the Stay Healthy Streets program. The Seattle Department of...
Sound Transit Approves Pilot Program Waiving Fares for Low-Income Riders, Previews Fare Enforcement Reform
A new income-based fare pilot program will provide help support low-income riders on Sound Transit services for up to two years as the transit...
State Supreme Court Intervenes in I-976 Case, Ruling Expected This Summer
The Washington Supreme Court wants the constitutionality question for Initiative 976 settled for good and sooner rather than later. Yesterday the court issued a...
Stride Bus Rapid Transit Is On the Way–Eventually
Work on Sound Transit's bus rapid transit program--Stride--is progressing, though slower than originally hoped. Some Stride lines' targeted openings have slipped from 2024 to...