Transportation

Fresh Off Making Transit Fare-Free, Intercity Transit Will Launch New Bus Route in Lacey

Intercity Transit will introduce universal fare-free transit in the new year, but it is also hoping to create a new bus route. The transit...
Cycling was all this rage near the turn of the 20th century, as this photo of a cycling club show. H/t to Paul Dorpat for tracking down the photo. (Credit: Puget Sound Cycle Club)

Wheeling Season: Bike Advocacy Comes Full Circle

Twenty years ago, I learned how to ride a bike in an abandoned South Lake Union parking lot. Today, the lot is home to...

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...
Second Avenue in Downtown Seattle. (Photo by author)

Transit Ridership is Flattening, but We Can Fix That

Seattle's remarkable run of transit ridership growth appears to finally have hit a speed bump. King County Metro's ridership grew at its slowest pace...

Connect 2020 Light Rail Service Disruptions Coming in January

Light rail disruptions in Downtown Seattle are only a few weeks away. Sound Transit plans to begins construction work near International District/Chinatown Station in...
A bikeshare pile up where bikes accumulated outside the Sounder Station in Pioneer Square. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

Lime Trims Staff and Bikeshare Fleet but Says It’s Not Closing Up Shop… Yet

Update: Despite earlier denials, Lime announced December 24th that it was closing down its bikeshare in Seattle and pulling all its bikes by December...
Angle Lake is the current southern terminus of Link, but the Federal Way Link Extension will add three stations to the south. (Sound Transit)

Feds Pledge $790 Million Grant for Federal Way Link

Under Secretary Elaine Chao, the United States Department of Transportation has been known for slow-walking or canceling transit grants, putting transit projects across the...
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"...