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Conservatives Seek Right to Kill Protesters with Their Cars

Last week, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an anti-protest bill into law, enshrining the right to run over protesters with automobiles and kill...

What Seattle’s ‘Keep Moving Streets’ Could Look Like This Summer

During the height of the pandemic last year, Seattle Parks and Recreation teamed up with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to create what...

What Would a Real Bridge Maintenance Plan Look Like?

The Seattle City Council is contemplating issuing bonds for $75 million to be spent on bridge maintenance projects instead of funding $80 million in...

Midweek Video: Metro’s New Eastlake Bus Layover Facility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqMgUoNKkU King County Metro will construct a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E and is still in the bidding phase for construction. The...
viaducts shunt traffic off the West Seattle high and low bridge in Youngstown.

Pedersen Amendment Would Cut Safe Streets Spending in Favor of Bridge Maintenance Bonds

Five months ago, Councilmember Alex Pedersen argued that the $20 vehicle license fee, passed by the city council, should be dedicated to bridge maintenance....
Mockup of what new overhead wayfinding signs will look like at Westlake Station. (Sound Transit)

Sound Transit Updates Station Wayfinding and Seattle Implements New Street Wayfinding

As the Puget Sound Region comes out of a year's-long pandemic hibernation, local agencies are hard at work improving the wayfinding system for people...
I-5 express lanes and general purposes lane stacked between Capitol Hill and Lake Union.

Five Ways Senator Hobbs’ Transportation Package Is Truly Backward

As the end of the legislative session draws near on April 25th, the question of whether Washington will pass a new transportation package looms...

New Bellevue and Woodinville Eastrail Segments Anticipated to Open in 2021

Underway in the Eastside is an effort to unify isolated railway-turned trails into a regionally unrivaled trail. Named Eastrail in 2019, the planned trail...