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...
Building Out Washington’s Passenger Rail Network with ‘Cascades Local Rail’
Last year, when Washington's east-west passenger rail study came out, the results were mostly uninspiring for a full corridor initially, but one particular section...
How To Build a Faster, Better Everett Link
Since the creation of the Sound Transit in 1996, taxpayers of the Snohomish County subarea have had the least realized transit benefit for the...
Five Ways Senator Hobbs’ Transportation Package Is Truly Backward
As the end of the legislative session draws near on April 25th, the question of whether Washington will pass a new transportation package looms...
Sunday Video: Why Did Railroad Companies Mass Produce Cities?
https://youtu.be/9viTTRd8iP8
Dave Amos documents the history of railway towns in America in this video. Railway companies in the 1800s expanded quickly to the West, platting...