Transportation

Mayor Durkan Lowers Speed Limits and Announces New Vision Zero Agenda

Within 18 months, the posted maximum speed limit on nearly every single arterial street in the city of Seattle will be 25 miles per...

The Case for Burying I-5 in a Deep-Bore Tunnel

Interstate 5: It's ugly, ubiquitous, and almost universally hated. It's a wall that separates one side of Seattle from the other. It's noisy and...

Washington Developing Bike/Ped Plan, Early Analysis Shows High Stress on State Highways

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has been working on a statewide active transportation plan this year that could reshape the state's highway...

Sunday Video: Black Friday Parking

https://youtu.be/-XscydK-3LI Dave Amos talks about parking regulations and parking demand in relation to the Black Friday shopping day. He also does a case study of...
The nine members of the Washington State Supreme Court. (Washington State)

State Supreme Court Upholds Injunction Blocking I-976

News broke yesterday that the Washington State Supreme Court had upheld the King County Superior Court's injunction against Initiative 976 causing transit backers to...

The $10 Million Plan for Adaptive Signals on Denny Way

Pedestrians attempting to crossing Denny Way while walking on Westlake Avenue's east side will find they are only allocated around ten seconds of walk...
California's bullet train station in San Francisco should look something like this. (Rendering by Paul Wallis / California High Speed Rail Authority)

Accepting the Challenge: Cascadia High Speed Rail

At some point in our recent history, we got complacent. Our society stopped its foresighted quest of reaching higher. This year marked the 50th...

Sound Transit Unveils Federal Way Link Station Designs and Name Options

In November, Sound Transit released updated design information for the Federal Way Link light rail extension, which Kiewit Infrastructure West Company will construct. While...