Transportation

ST3 Passed! Here’s How and What’s Next

A 25-year investment in high quality transit is a big commitment to make, but the Puget Sound Region just made it after last night's...

Streets In Seattle Are Getting A Little Calmer

Most streets in Seattle officially had 5 mph knocked off from their speed limits yesterday. Non-arterial streets dropped from 25 mph to 20 mph and...

Creating Seattle’s Superblocks, Part 1

Often when an idea comes along that the urban planning world finds intriguing, there's a race for other cities to try out that idea....

ST3 Is Greener Than You Think

A lot of ink has been spilled about Sound Transit's prediction that ST3 would decrease carbon emissions by "only" an additional 130,000 metric tons...

Sunday Video: Diverging Diamond Interchange Comes To Washington

The Washington State Department of Transportation has announced that they are planning on introducing the first Diverging Diamond Intersection (DDI) on I-5 at Marvin Road...

Rest In Peace, Breda Monster

Is it so silly, when we really think about it, to mourn the passing of a coach type? Think back to your childhood haunts....

More Support For Removing I-5 Downtown

When I published an argument for removing I-5 from central Seattle on Monday, I hoped it would start a conversation, and it does seem...

A Stroad Grows in Lynnwood: 196th St SW

Lynnwood is on a path toward disaster with its latest stroad designs for 196th St SW, a road bisecting the city's regional growth center near...