Transportation

Can’t Stop the Sound Transit Train, Growth at Breakneck Speed

Time and time again, we wonder: when will transit rider growth diminish? And time and time again, we've been pleasantly surprised that it hasn't...

March Is Women’s Bike Month

Biking is a heavily male-dominated sport and mode of transportation. Locally, we're still subject to the huge gender gap in biking with nearly 71% of bike...

Roosevelt Station 90% Design Open House

On Wednesday, Sound Transit held an open house at Roosevelt High School to discuss the 90% station design benchmark for Roosevelt Station. As a...

CascadiaCast Episode 1: Ben Schiendelman

I'm excited to announce the start of a new podcast series for fellow urbanists in the Pacific Northwest entitled CascadiaCast. I'll be sitting down...

Commute Seattle Study Shows Only 31% of Downtown Commuters Drive Alone

  Commute Seattle released new survey data,with the help of EMC Research, that shows a growing percentage of Downtown commuters rely on modes other than single...

Hitting all of Seattle’s Protected Bike Lanes in one ride

On the beautiful day of January 25th, I set out on an interesting bike trip: hitting all of Seattle's protected bike lanes in one...

223,000 service hour contract approved by King County Council and Seattle City Council

The Metropolitan King County Council and Seattle City Council jointly approved a bus service contract yesterday to deploy 223,000 service hours in the city...

Relocating a Pronto! station for the sake of political correctness

By now, you've probably read about or seen those green bikes roaming the streets of Seattle from the bikesharing service Pronto! Launched in Fall 2014, 50...