Transportation

The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar

The Urbanist has been banging the drum for following through on long-laid plans to build the Center City Connector to connect Seattle's two orphan...

SDOT Plan Proposes Deleting Key Crosswalk from Beacon Hill Safety Project

Around Seattle, a slate of street improvements that were approved nearly two years ago, in October of 2016, are being constructed. On Capitol Hill,...

Sunday Video: Let’s Make Mass Transit Free*

https://youtu.be/ccxVYborUcU On City Beautiful, Dave Amos takes a look at the benefits for free public transit and why it should be expanded to more transit...

Seattle Transit Shelter Modernization Plan Shelved, Forgoing $97 Million Or More In Advertising Revenue

Cities across the country are trying to improve their public realms by putting an emphasis on enhancing the pedestrian and transit user experience. Seattle...

Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Streetcars Are Not Real Transit: Budapest Edition

Modern American streetcars have a bad rap. Partially this is self-inflicted. Several American transit agencies have planned streetcars doomed with routes that are too...

Long Promised Center City Streetcar Would Be a Boon to First Hill

Within a year, 1,400 new housing units will come online in First Hill, which is already one of Seattle’s densest neighborhoods, as well as...

3rd Avenue All Day Transit Restrictions Start Today

Over the weekend, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) crews were busy marking twelve blocks of 3rd Avenue "bus only" and adding signs up and...

Sunday Video: Northgate Link Update

https://youtu.be/9IZ1gULaZ50 Sound Transit has new footage of construction progress of the Link light rail extension at Northgate. The footage provides a bird’s eye view of...