Light Rail Work Brings Six Weeks of 1 Line Service Disruptions
Sound Transit will be conducting maintenance and expansion tie-in work May 12 through June 25 that will impact 1 Line light rail service. The biggest disruptions will take place June 1 and 2, June 21 through June 23, and Tuesdays after 11pm.
Seattle’s Drive Alone Rate Downtown Plummets as Walking to Work Ticks Up
Seattle's center city neighborhoods are adding jobs at an astounding rate but Seattle's streets downtown aren't getting wider. Something has to change, and the...
Op-Ed: Washington Needs Bigger Amtrak Cascades Upgrades on a Faster Timeline
WSDOT is mulling boosting Amtrak Cascades service to 16 daily runs, but none of its options tackle the speed and reliability improvements to truly unlock the corridor's potential. A survey open through April 18 is an opportunity to push in that direction.
Sound Transit Prepares to Unfreeze Dozens of Halted Projects
More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took...
Policy Lab: Shifting Transportation Habits with Cold, Hard Cash
From e-bike rebates to congestion pricing, policy should incentivize healthy, eco-friendly choices. These six ideas can achieve a dramatic mode shift away from driving and toward transit, biking, walking, and rolling.
Deep Seattle Light Rail Stations, Other ST3 Details Emerging Ahead of Draft Plan Release
Reaching the station platform could take six minutes at the deepest stations.
Sound Transit's preferred alignment for the next phase of light rail in Seattle...
Seattle’s Key Transit Corridors Face Uncertain Budgets and Diminished Scope
$96 million dollars could be the new overall budget cap for all seven corridors that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) promised voters it...
Replacing the Tacoma Trestle
The Tacoma Trestle is a 0.65-mile long trestle in Tacoma that stretches east from Freighthouse Square (the Tacoma Dome Sounder station) to the BNSF mainline...








