When Waiting For a Bus or Train Is a Pleasure: How Sweden Brings Together...
Great cities are often known by their signature urban spaces and superb public transit. As Seattle works to activate and energize the public realm and...
Snohomish County Bus-to-Link Service Restructure Centered On Northgate Station
Community Transit and Sound Transit have a revised service restructure proposal oriented around future Link light rail service at Northgate, which is slated to...
MASS Coalition Urges Transit Priority Along All of Third Avenue
On Thursday morning, the Move All Seattle Sustainably (MASS) Coalition--which includes The Urbanist as a member--issued a statement urging the City of Seattle to...
Constantine Appoints Zahilay, Birney, and Strauss to Sound Transit Board
This afternoon, King County Executive Dow Constantine unveiled three new appointments to the Sound Transit Board of Directors: King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay, Redmond...
Sound Transit Hires LAX Exec To Fix Its Transit Expansion Programs
Mestas will serve as Deputy CEO of Megaproject Delivery with responsibility in managing projects from start to finish. With many projects behind schedule and overbudget, righting the ship is badly needed.
Seattle Transportation Plan Project List Suggests Roadmap for Levy Renewal
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has released a draft project list intended to go along with its mammoth Seattle Transportation Plan, still in...
Benaroya Hall Closes Key ‘Symphony Station’ Elevator Outside Concert Hours
For more than a year, an elevator bank at University Street station has mostly been shuttered. The reason isn't because of broken or faulty...
2016 Numbers: Sound Transit Riding High
Sound Transit is riding high with incredibly healthy ridership growth for 2016, buoyed in large part to the opening of three new light rail stations in...