Transportation

A snarl of car traffic on 4th Avenue with transit and people biking on the margins. (Photo by Scott Bonjukian)

Skip the Ballot, Seattle Should Enact Road Pricing As a Pilot Program

What will it take to make congestion pricing a reality in Seattle? Depending on whom you ask, road pricing is either just around the corner,...
Ride2 vans were re-purposed from Metro's fleet and may go back to other services. Some include wheelchair ramps as shown. (King County Metro)

Metro Nixes Ride2 Shuttle, Citing Dismal Metrics, but Via to Transit Continues

King County Metro has been dabbling in on-demand shuttle services to entice riders to transit centers, but some of those pilot projects are floundering....
Albuquerque Rapid Transit, a center-running BRT - the gold standard to which Aurora should aspire (Credit: Albuquerque Rapid Transit, http://www.brtabq.com/)

Aurora’s Destiny Is Bus, Not Rail

Author's Note: This article is in response to Doug Trumm’s excellent piece on Aurora rail, which was in turn a response to Seattle Subway’s...

Bellevue’s Downtown Signal Policy Discourages Walking

On Tuesday, KOMO TV reporter Steve McCarron tweeted about Bellevue police stopping pedestrians who tried to enter the crosswalk on the blinking red hand...

Midweek Video: Sea-Tac’s Future International Arrivals Facility

https://youtu.be/A56eEljgwzQ The Port of Seattle has released a new video visualizing what the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) will look like and how it will...
King County Water Taxi waiting area. (Photo by author)

King County Metro Ponders New Ferry Routes

Could the Mosquito Fleet return to Lake Washington and spread to new locations on the eastern side of Puget Sound? King County Metro is...
Two teens walk along the edge of Aurora with no sidewalk and streams of cars going by.

Fix Aurora Avenue Now

On Black Friday, a motorist attempting a turn from Aurora Avenue to N 39th St careened over the curb and plowed into a family...
Bus lanes and dropping a general purpose lane in each direction would turn Aurora Avenue into a much safer and more walkable street. (Image by Ryan DiRaimo)

We Must Design Aurora Avenue to Put Safety First

When a pedestrian is struck and killed in your neighborhood you are at a loss for words. When it has happened five times in...