Transportation

What’s Next For Seattle’s Transportation Benefit District

The second year of the Seattle Transit Benefit District (STBD) showed very positive results delivering increasing ridership, more local bus service, and overall system...

Looking Back on Two Years of Investment in Seattle Transit

The second annual performance report on the Seattle Transportation Benefit District (STBD) was released this week. The report highlights local investments in transit service,...

Sunday Video: Bus Stop Balancing

https://vimeo.com/240382367 New York City-based TransitCenter is promoting bus stop balancing, or what some call bus stop consolidation, in New York and beyond to speed up...

Halloween Exposes the Benefits of Density

Every trick-or-treater is an urbanist on Halloween. Why leg it between spaced out suburban ramblers when you can find a street where the houses...

Lid I-5 Awarded $48,000 Grant for Community Outreach

Lid I-5 has been awarded a $48,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to further our campaign of reconnecting communities divided by Interstate...

Sound Transit Shares Design Concepts for Federal Way Link

Light rail will extend as far south as Federal Way in 2024, serving approximately 36,500 daily riders. Sound Transit is working to design the look,...

Budget Tweaks Could Speed Transit, Homelessness Services, and Broadband Plan

The budget season is in full swing. The Seattle City Council met on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss different proposals by councilmembers to add...

Everett Transit Seeks Feedback on Long-Range Plan Concepts

Everett's effort to develop a 20-year, long-term strategy for its city-operated bus system is moving forward with two competing options. One option would add...