Gondolas serve the city of Jounieh in Lebanon. (Credit: FunkMonk / Wikimedia Commons)

Gondolas Could Be the Light Rail Complement Seattle Needs

Seattle has plenty of hills and waterways which makes a subway system attractive in comparison to road-based solutions. But even a subway needs to...

Midweek Video: The Smashing Success of NYC’s 14th Street Busway

https://vimeo.com/371882620 New York City recently opened a busway on 14th Street in Manhattan, which now provides faster service for riders crosstown and has improved the...

Fresh Off Making Transit Fare-Free, Intercity Transit Will Launch New Bus Route in Lacey

Intercity Transit will introduce universal fare-free transit in the new year, but it is also hoping to create a new bus route. The transit...
Second Avenue in Downtown Seattle. (Photo by author)

Transit Ridership is Flattening, but We Can Fix That

Seattle's remarkable run of transit ridership growth appears to finally have hit a speed bump. King County Metro's ridership grew at its slowest pace...

Connect 2020 Light Rail Service Disruptions Coming in January

Light rail disruptions in Downtown Seattle are only a few weeks away. Sound Transit plans to begins construction work near International District/Chinatown Station in...
Angle Lake is the current southern terminus of Link, but the Federal Way Link Extension will add three stations to the south. (Sound Transit)

Feds Pledge $790 Million Grant for Federal Way Link

Under Secretary Elaine Chao, the United States Department of Transportation has been known for slow-walking or canceling transit grants, putting transit projects across the...
A snarl of car traffic on 4th Avenue with transit and people biking on the margins. (Photo by Scott Bonjukian)

Skip the Ballot, Seattle Should Enact Road Pricing As a Pilot Program

What will it take to make congestion pricing a reality in Seattle? Depending on whom you ask, road pricing is either just around the corner,...
Ride2 vans were re-purposed from Metro's fleet and may go back to other services. Some include wheelchair ramps as shown. (King County Metro)

Metro Nixes Ride2 Shuttle, Citing Dismal Metrics, but Via to Transit Continues

King County Metro has been dabbling in on-demand shuttle services to entice riders to transit centers, but some of those pilot projects are floundering....