King County Metro Transit Adds Nearly 70,000 Service Hours
King County Metro Transit is adding loads of new service in its first service change of 2017. More than 80 routes will get improvements...
City Council Setting the Stage for Another Streetcar Showdown
Councilmember Herbold has proposed shelving the Center City Connector streetcar project once again and diverting $2.4 million in funding to Citywide hiring incentives.
The Seattle...
Urban Gondola Moves Forward in Vancouver Metro Area
Should Seattle seek inspiration from its northern neighbor's unconventional transit choice?
In recent years, Seattle had has its fair share of proposed aerial gondolas, a...
Sunday Video: Metro Systems
City Beautiful explores why more American cities don’t have metro systems like New York City and Chicago.
https://youtu.be/bLtmJHHqbh8
While there are no one answer for this,...
How To Triage ST3 Package: Build Ballard First
My initial impressions of Sound Transit's draft plan for Sound Transit 3 were that it was weighted too heavily to delivering project to the...
Midweek Video: Highways Almost Destroyed Amsterdam via Plan Jokinen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5pbDFDZyI
In the 1960s, Amsterdam briefly was sold on a highway urban renewal project designed by an American planner David Jokinen. It would have destroyed...
Ballard and West Seattle Light Rail Tunnel Options May Not Require Third-Party Funding
Light rail tunnels to West Seattle Junction and Ballard took a step closer from dream to reality thanks to Sound Transit's latest analysis suggesting...
SDOT Unveils 23rd Avenue ‘Phase 2’ Design
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is in the midst of planning the second phase of corridor improvements to 23rd Avenue, a main thoroughfare...