Free Transit New Year’s Eve
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Transit is free New Year's Eve all day - from 3am Sunday to 3am Monday - on Metro, Sound Transit, Community Transit, Everett Transit, the Seattle Streetcar, Seattle Center Monorail, King County Water Taxi, and Metro's van services. Pierce Transit is not listed and its website has nothing about it. Link will extend its late-night service every 15 minutes until 2am, and the T Line every 20 minutes until 12:40am. ST Express will have unspecified additional service. Metro, CT, and ET buses will be on Sunday schedule. The Monorail will run northbound until 11pm, and southbound between 12:30am and 1am.
On New Year's Day (Monday) fares will be required, and transit will run on Sunday schedule. Everett Transit will have no service Monday.
The Link reduction January 13 to February 4 is still on. I saw a sign about it at Roosevelt Station last Tuesday with a nice diagram of the service. On weekdays trains will run the full length between Northgate and Angle Lake every 26 minutes, and that will be the only downtown service. Additional trains will run Northgate-Capitol Hill and Stadium-Angle Lake for combined 13 minute service in the tails. On weekends the downtown tunnel will be closed, and shuttle buses will run between Capitol Hill and SODO (not Stadium).
Small is beautiful in train stations? Pedestrian Observations thinks the 125th Street station is oversized on New York's Second Avenue Subway, and it's not for grand iconic architecture but to give each department a separate staff breakroom paid by external money.
Meanwhile RMTransit got a construction tour of the Grand Paris Express metro expansion and says it's awesome. And Lima, Peru, opened an automated line.
An in-depth look at Montreal transit and land use by Not Just Bikes. The first part of the video is the positives. The negatives start at 17:13 and go on for 30 minutes.
Canada and the US are the only two countries in the world where 4+ story narrow buildings aren't allowed to be built anymore, and it's because of staircases. But Seattle is an exception. (About Here video)
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