60% Designs for Route 44 Add Some Pedestrian Improvements
The Route 44 Transit-Plus Multimodal Corridor (TPMC) had reached the 60% design milestone, and last week the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) of shared...
Metro Reveals Tiered Plan for RapidRide I Stations
A RapidRide line is coming to Auburn, Kent, and Renton in 2023 to provide more than just a more frequent and faster bus. King...
Feds Add $604 Million in Relief for Puget Sound Transit Agencies
As a supplement to last year's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, additional federal funding has come through providing local transit agencies...
Sound Transit 3’s Affordability Gap Shrinks to $7.9 Billion, So What’s Next?
In some encouraging news yesterday, Sound Transit shared an updated financial outlook for Sound Transit 3 (ST3). Revised projections show that the program affordability...
Amtrak Boosting Service in May with Four Daily Trips to Portland
The pandemic has meant a big curtailment in passenger rail service for Washington. Right now there's only thrice weekly long-distance service to Los Angeles...
Midweek Video: Metro’s New Eastlake Bus Layover Facility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqMgUoNKkU
King County Metro will construct a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E and is still in the bidding phase for construction. The...
ST3: How to Get the Best Value Amid a Budget Crunch
With an $11.5 billion funding crunch and cost escalations in the Sound Transit 3 program, it’s clear that some cutbacks and delays may be...
Sound Transit Updates Station Wayfinding and Seattle Implements New Street Wayfinding
As the Puget Sound Region comes out of a year's-long pandemic hibernation, local agencies are hard at work improving the wayfinding system for people...