Washington State Senate Passes Car Tab Bill Threatening ST3 Projects
The Washington State Senate was burning the midnight oil into the wee hours of the morning yesterday to vote on a complex bill originally...
Call to Action: Urge State Senators to Fund High Speed Rail Study
Last week, the Washington State House came through with $900,000 to partially fund a business case study of high-speed rail connecting Vancouver, Seattle, and...
Sound Transit Pitches Large Fare Increases for Many Express Bus Riders
Sound Transit staff is moving forward with an effort to restructure adult fares on ST Express bus service. Billed as "fare simplification," the changes...
Frequent Transit Nodes and What They Mean for Urban Village Expansions
Ten urban villages' boundaries are expanding in the latest batch of Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) rezones, but by the city's own logic...
Olympia Poised to Partially Fund High-Speed Rail ‘Business Case’ Study
One way or another, high-speed rail looks poised to get a deeper study in Washington state. On Wednesday, transportation committees of the Washington State Legislature...
SDOT Proposes Streetcar Speed and Reliability Improvements on Broadway
Changes could be headed to Broadway this summer and transit riders are poised to benefit. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is considering several...
Seattle Will Provide Free Transit to All Public High School Students
All public high school students in Seattle will receive free transit passes under a plan to encourage transit ridership both in the immediate and...
Map of the Week: West Seattle and Ballard Conceptual Alignments
Last week, Sound Transit formally kicked off its scoping process or the West Seattle and Ballard light rail extensions. The process is important because it will...