Transportation

New State Highway System Plan Offers Escape from ‘Glide Path to Failure’

WSDOT wants to quit its highway expansion ways and adopt a fix-it-first policy. Will the legislature listen? Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Secretary Roger...
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A Guide to Transit-Oriented Running in Seattle

Great transit can open up a city for runners of all abilities. Transit is a marginal consideration, if it's one at all, for most runners....

How Will Sound Transit Manage Future Service Disruptions with Two Overlapping Lines?

With another "Future Ready" maintenance project coming down the pike in January, it raises a big question for the future: What should riders expect...

Design Flaws Prompt Changes to Capitol Hill’s Melrose and Pike Intersection

Bollards are on the way to protect pedestrians. When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wrapped up installation in mid-2022 on what had been intended...

Seattle City Council Rejects Transportation Impact Fee Push

Homebuilders won a brief reprieve with council opting to delay its impact fee push -- for now. The Seattle City Council declined to approve a...

Route 40 Bus Upgrades Reach Full Design, Despite Business Pushback

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has reached full design on a set of upgrades to Route 40, one of the city's busiest crosstown...

Is Sound Transit Closing In on Fare Gates for Link and Sounder?

An agency report obtained by The Urbanist lays out three key scenarios to implement fare gates with the goal of driving up fare compliance...
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Sound Transit Moving Forward on Purchase of 10 More Link Cars

Sound Transit is moving ahead on purchase of 10 more Link cars to buy back some system capacity being stretched and thinned out by...