Op-Ed: It’s Time to Bring Transit Back to Seattle’s First Avenue
Restoring transit routes to First Avenue, after they were removed in 2011 to make way for the demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, is a needed step in downtown mobility as the neighborhood enters a new era.
Harrell’s Transportation Budget Focuses on Downtown But Leaves Out the Streetcar
Transportation was essentially a footnote this week as Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his proposed changes to Seattle's 2024 city budget, with housing, police tech,...
Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Streetcars Are Not Real Transit: Budapest Edition
Modern American streetcars have a bad rap. Partially this is self-inflicted. Several American transit agencies have planned streetcars doomed with routes that are too...
Transpo Notes: Feds Boost ST3, Water Taxi Adds Evening Sailings, Tacoma Streetcar Gets New...
This week’s Transpo Notes roundup covers recommended federal funding that could accelerate Sound Transit 3 (ST3) projects, the King County Water Taxi's summer sailing...
The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar
The Urbanist has been banging the drum for following through on long-laid plans to build the Center City Connector to connect Seattle's two orphan...
First Hill Streetcar Opens with Lessons for Future Lines
Seattle’s new streetcar route, the First Hill line, finally opened on Saturday. Despite the cold and rain, months of tantalizingly empty test runs and the...
Streetcar and 101 ‘Ghost’ Positions at SPD Survive Budget Deliberations
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has a special privilege granted to no other department in the City. The City allocates funding to SPD for...
The Streetcar Symphony
Nothing stops the chorus of a city’s urban dance than a parking garage or surface lot. In the booming age of Seattle’s downtown core,...