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DTLA Street Futures from Karl Baumann on Vimeo.

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Roosevelt BRT meetings this week. Meddling design review board costs the city 36 stories of housing and jobs ($). Burn the whole design review process down. WSDOT hiring someone to put out information to travelers. “Asian Plaza” redeveloping in a big way. ST contracts with FCV to provide “user-centered design.” Metro in a kerfuffle over an […]

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Since University Link opened, many more of you have occasion to use light rail in the course of your daily lives. Moreover, lots of stuff happens on Capitol Hill, and for most people, Link is part of the best transit path to get there. Nevertheless, if you’re not of those lucky rail riders, tomorrow will […]

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A television documentary from 1984 about the history of the Bay Area’s transit system featuring scenes of long gone interurban railroads.

Beginning the weekend of July 8-11th, WSDOT will conduct a major repaving project on I-5 between Tukwila and Federal Way. Southbound I-5 will shrink down to two lanes during this work. Transit users can expect delays. The work affects the 101, 106, and 150, as well as ST Express Routes. Metro spokesman Jeff Switzer says […]

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Link ridership continues to climb, with preliminary figures for May average weekday ridership in the “mid 60s” according to spokesman Bruce Gray. Anecdotally, certain twitter scolds have noted times where these loads have meant jam-packed trains. At the least, loading a bike during rush hour is uncomfortable. At worst, dozens of people are left on […]

Our treasured Craftsman Houses were once “evil,” ($) because change is scary. SeaTac considers banning “park and fly” lots at Angle Lake. Empty Metro bus catches fire ($) in Tukwila. I continue to be impressed by Lynnwood’s vision for the future. UW staff fear that the U-PASS (for employees, not students) is in danger. KUOW […]

This was accidentally first posted here on my Code Blog. I deleted it and subsequently posted it in the proper place on my non-code blog. I’ve restored this placeholder post just so that anyone following links to it won’t get a 404…

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Today’s the day ST3 gets sent to the ballot. Follow along on Twitter (@seatransitblog), or watch above! We’ll be live tweeting from 1:30-4:00. Tweets by @SeaTransitBlog

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OFF THE RAILS – Official Trailer from Adam Irving on Vimeo.

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A front-page story in yesterday’s Times ($) describes a study that shows much higher property values around light rail stations. “Studies” that come from local firms trying to generate PR deserve some skepticism. Nevertheless, I think their headline writer is trying to spin this as a bad thing: “To live near light rail in Seattle, you’ll […]

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ST3 goes final Making transit work better during special events or construction Roosevelt-Eastlake BRT http://traffic.libsyn.com/seattletransitblog/STB_podcast_019.mp3

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Northgate Link tunneling on track to finish in September. Residents in tall buildings sue to prevent tall buildings from blocking their view of tall buildings. ($) North Sound cities looking to grade-separate their rail lines.’ Capitol Hill Station is not yet perfect. 30 more stories on First Hill. Amtrak derails in Tukwila, no injuries. ST […]

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It’s a beautiful day in Safetyville…unless you are a safety-ignorant stick figure, then you’d be an amusingly morbid lesson for all of us.

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Temp bus lane on Westlake to help @kcmetrobus riders following #DucksBusCrash closure of Aurora Bridge. pic.twitter.com/1Zecno8ZQI — seattledot (@seattledot) September 25, 2015 I’m fond of criicizing local agencies (usually WSDOT) when events, planned and unplanned, bring pleas to take transit while those agencies take away any incentive to take that transit. So it’s only fair […]

It’s that time again. If there’s a question you’d like Frank and me to answer on our next podcast, put it in the comments and we’ll get to as many as we can. The podcast should air sometime next week.