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| Updated | 2026-09-02 07:21 |
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by Oran Viriyincy on (#3CM2P)
A panoramic view of the growth that has taken place in Seattle over the last three years using photos from the Space Needle’s PanoCam.
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by Dan Ryan on (#3C9X3)
Elected leaders from across King County will gather on February 2 to consider legislative strategy and revenue options for the Regional Transportation System Initiative. A Technical Committee of City and County staff have identified $20 billion of regional roads improvements (in 2018 constant dollars) to be funded by 2040. With that analysis in hand, the next […]
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by Oran Viriyincy on (#3C2M7)
This May, Nashvillians will vote on a transportation plan that includes among many things a three-station downtown transit tunnel shared by rapid buses and light rail trains. Unlike Seattle’s tunnel, it will have all off-board payment.
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by Bruce Englehardt on (#3BY4F)
Last week, the Sound Transit Board signed off on a $125.7 million budget for preliminary engineering on the Tacoma Dome Link Extension and a $10.3 million consultant contract for the same project. When the extension opens in 2030, trains will run all the way to the Tacoma Dome multimodal complex on 10 miles of mostly […]
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by Brent White on (#3BM09)
With a fresh blanket of snow Christmas morning, even in the lowlands, it is a good time for a refresher on getting all the information you need to find your bus in a snowstorm. First, since it is Christmas, most transit agencies are either running on a Sunday schedule, or off for the holiday, so […]
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by Oran Viriyincy on (#3BJJ8)
A look at the people and technology behind Tokyo Metro’s renowned punctuality, safety, and exceptional customer service.
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by Brent White on (#3BGGZ)
This week has needed some good news on transit, and King County Metro is providing it: From 4 am on New Year’s Eve to 4 am New Year’s Day, riding King County Metro will be free! Metro will be running on its Sunday schedule, but extra trips will be added on routes 1, 3, 4, […]
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by Bruce Nourish on (#3BAYF)
Unsurprisingly, regional and national transportation news has been dominated since Monday by the tragic Amtrak 501 derailment. Because many of our readers are following the news of that accident via traditional or social media, and every outlet is working with the same (small) set of facts, I elected not to try and summarize all the […]
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by Martin H. Duke on (#3B5Z4)
Although the human impacts are miniscule compared to those of the accident itself, there will be only minor changes to Amtrak Cascades service until further notice. According to Janet Matkin of WSDOT, the state has already taken possession of enough rolling stock to run all scheduled Cascades trips. Obviously, these trips will take the old route […]
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by Bruce Englehardt on (#3B5CW)
With the national attention that yesterday’s tragic derailment is getting, we felt it would be best to provide a bit of context about the accident’s site: the Point Defiance Bypass. While it is a “new†railroad, built primarily for passenger use, the corridor is over a century old and some pieces date back decades. The […]
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by Frank Chiachiere on (#3AT8G)
10 years ago this month, to great fanfare, Seattle’s modern streetcar line opened, a 1.3-mile route between Westlake and South Lake Union. Though it seems insignificant now, cast your mind back to 2007. The Seattle Monorail Project died just two years earlier, after costing the city $125M. A month before the streetcar opening, the Roads […]
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by Martin H. Duke on (#3AQ4V)
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved a partnering agreement to accelerate Sound Transit 3 project delivery. The slideshow, the partnering_agreement itself, and Councilmember Lisa Herbold’s thorough writeup are all online. Most of the agreement is just a commitment to working together and being cooperative, but there are some interesting nuggets. Each agency (ST […]
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by Bruce Nourish on (#3AGQJ)
A profile of Seattle’s Chief Traffic Engineer Dongho Chang ($), notably including his sadly-uncommon perspective on civil engineering: “Creating things that enable civilization — where people are gathered — to occur.†On that note, here’s what SDOT is doing to make crossing the Mercer Stroad better for people on foot ($). How City Planning Can […]
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by Lizz Giordano on (#3A8QY)
On August 8, a severe electrical malfunction at the Tukwila traction power substation caused extensive damage to the unit, according to Paul Denison, director of light rail operations at Sound Transit. Following the outage, drivers were given orders to slow acceleration. Briefing board members Thursday during the Operations and Administration Committee meeting, Denison said an […]
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by Brent White on (#39ZEP)
King County Metro’s 2017 Annual System Evaluation is now publicly available. One coarse performance measure in the appendices (pages 45-60) is weekday ridership on each route, comparing fall 2016 ridership to fall 2015 ridership. STB covered the March 2016 and September 2016 service changes that occurred during this period, as well as the March 2017 […]
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by Dan Ryan on (#39WDK)
Microsoft announced last week a major investment in their Redmond campus, expanding their footprint to accommodate up to 8,000 more workers, but also renovating and reinventing their campus. 12 older buildings will give way to 18 taller ones with a net addition of 2.5 million square feet. Urbanists, and other observers, were quick to notice […]
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by Lizz Giordano on (#39ATY)
Sound Transit’s ridership continues to rise, fueled mostly by light rail expansion, according third quarter ridership numbers released by the agency last week. Ridership across the system was up 6.5% over the same quarter in 2016. In an accompanying press release, Sound Transit lauded current year-to-date ridership in 2017, up 26% on Link and 12% […]
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