Transportation

Sunday Video: Airport Expansion

https://youtu.be/QN5Rnu0-RhE Using London’s Heathrow Airport as a case study, Dave Amos explains the pitfalls and limited benefits of airport expansion.
High speed train models like this were on display at the Cascadia Rail Summit. (Credit: Doug Trumm)

Cascadia’s Courtship of High-Speed Rail

Early this month, a group of more than 100 rail industry professionals and local politicians met on the Microsoft campus to discuss the future...
Pacific Central Station in Vancouver is the port of entry for Amtrak Cascades trips. (Photo by Nkocharh, Wikimedia Commons)

Amtrak Cascades Could Get Customs Preclearance in Canada Shaving At Least 10 Minutes Off...

Amtrak is hoping to improve service from Vancouver, British Columbia for its Amtrak Cascades service. At a briefing Wednesday, Ron Pate of the Washington...

Warren Wants to Eliminate 40,000 Road Deaths, Stranger Reporter Hates It

Sunday was World Day of Remembrance of Traffic Crash Victims and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) paid her respects with a tweet. "Traffic violence kills...

Following the Money: The Case of Prop CC and I-976

It is often said in American society that money talks, and this statement often seems doubly true when applied to politics. So what does...

Pierce County Poised to Be First to Designate Countywide Centers in Puget Sound

Pierce County could be the first county to implement a local option under the Regional Centers Framework, an arm of the Regional Growth Strategy...
Route 44 heads through downtown Ballard on Market Street on a fall evening. (Photo by Doug Trumm))

Route 44 Upgrade Pursues Elusive High-Quality Crosstown Service

Route 44 is a workhorse, but it's far from a racehorse. 9,300 daily riders pack themselves into the lumbering beast of burden and suffer...
The new and improved Olympia Transit Center is expected to open soon. (Credit: Intercity Transit)

Intercity Transit Considering Going Fare-Free in Thurston County

A fare-free system could be headed to Thurston County. Intercity Transit will consider a demonstration project for a five-year fare-free bus network, which could...