King County Changes Metro Bus Fare Structure for 2018
Fares on King County Metro Transit will change to a flat $2.75 next year. The Metropolitan King County Council adopted an ordinance on Monday...
Protected Bike Lanes Guard Cyclists from Pollution
As a relatively new cyclist and resident of South Seattle, the recent The Urbanist piece about the downgrading of protected bike lanes frustrated me. The...
Sunday Video: Bicycle and Transit Markings
https://youtu.be/jYUdIfx9r0g
Seattle’s City Traffic Engineer, Dongho Chang, explains why Seattle has various types of bicycle and transit markings and how they work.
South Lake Union is for Pedestrians
In April, I wrote about the failure to turn Seattle's high tech corridor in North Downtown away from being a car-centric office park and...
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...