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Metro Planner Ted Day and Heather McAuliffe are planning a family-friendly transit “hike” on Sunday, July 24th. I will use routes 62 and 75, and involve a stroll through Magnuson Park. Heather explains: Meet up location: Eastbound stop on Stevens Way at Rainier Vista for Routes 75 and 372 (UW Station) Board Route 75 departing […]

Arlington County, just across the river from Washington DC, is a model for rail transit oriented development. It was not an easy journey but it was worth it, even their “slow growth-ers” agreed. It is quite the contrast from how civic leaders in South King County and Snohomish County approached Link’s alignment.

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Happy to announce we've expanded our Home Area to serve more neighborhoods and added 150 MINI Clubman to our fleet! pic.twitter.com/9RkJzkxjfO — ReachNow (@ReachNowUSA) June 28, 2016 Rachel Lerman, The Seattle Times ($): BMW’s car-sharing service is expanding into the Seattle areas it promised to serve when the service launched two months ago. ReachNow said Tuesday it […]

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Taking questions from the reader mailbag. Links mentioned: Detailed Move Seattle Budget RapidRide+: The Corridors Is UW Sleepwalking into a Transportation Disaster? Where America is Working http://traffic.libsyn.com/seattletransitblog/STB_podcast_020.mp3

Moving all these light rail riders into autonomous cars will help solve traffic congestion, per automobile technology investor. (Photo by Oran). Just when you thought silly season was over for transit opponents (We should vote down ST3 because Sound Transit threw a large opening day party for U-Link!), Bryan Mistele, CEO of INRIX, a traffic-information […]

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The Times has a handy calculator ($) to estimate what your ST3 tax burden would be. Kitsap Transit settles for $2.75m with an injured cyclist. Mercer Islander heroically fighting to expand special SOV privileges. 31% of Seattle riders are “all-purpose”; 23% “commuters”; and 46% “occasional.” Of course, “all-purpose” riders make up a larger proportion of […]

The STB Editorial Board is gearing up for primary endorsements. We’re only going to look at races with more than two candidates, and as always only consider positions on transit and land use. Anyhow, if you have any recommendations, particularly on state legislative candidates, that we should take a careful look at for the August […]

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If driverless cars become universal, then running buses will become much more economical, too:

While we do our last minute scrambling for SDCC, I wanted to put out the call for anyone willing to do me a solid, who is attending SDCC this year. If you’ve got a little extra time on your hands this week, and would like to thanked by all the LFG/LICD merch you can carry, […]

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Mayor Murray blows up the unrepresentative “district council” model. Metro bike racks violate state law, but WSDOT can (and will) issue one-year waivers to allow them to continue operating. Pierce Transit spending $3m to improve transit centers and park-and-ride next year. Republican platform wants to cut transit and Amtrak funding. Montlake Blvd design is highway-like. Meeting […]

City Limits, Laurence Hyde, National Film Board of Canada

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David Rolf righteously demolishes the record of neighborhood councils ($). Yonah Freemark reviews the transportation platforms of the federal parties and candidates. Spoiler alert: the Democrats are better. Sammamish Council split on ST3; comments narrowly focus on Sammamish, not thinking as a subarea, much less a region. The Seattle City Council killed microhousing, and hundreds […]

Primary endorsements Bertha overruns TRU and low-income fares Seattle loves light rail Driverless cars Adventures with Car2Go in Everett http://traffic.libsyn.com/seattletransitblog/STB_podcast_021.mp3

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Peak hour queue to exit Capitol Hill Station — photo by SounderBruce — Flickr Those of you who have spent any time at UW Station, Capitol Hill Station, Mt Baker Station, Tukwila International Boulevard Station, or SeaTac Airport Station may have noticed something obvious about the station escalators. They usually involve long queues in only […]

Nearly accurate rendition of the LADOT logo in a cartoon.

As some of the subscribers to Oxford Shortwave Log will know, I’ve been talking about building a battery pack for my Elad FDM DUO to take it out on a DXpedition. Finally, I found the time to quickly do just that with some parts that cost less than £10 – as the video below demonstrates in […]

Everett Transit and Pierce Transit are the lucky recipients of federal grants to purchase new buses powered by electric batteries, similar to those operated by King County Metro on the Eastside. The Federal Transit Administration’s “Low or No Emission Vehicle Program” awarded $55 million in grants to 21 transit agencies nationwide. Everett Transit will use its $3.4 […]

CBC Radio 1, Gander, heard in Oxford UK A really great signal from CBC Radio 1 Gander – the best I’ve ever heard on this or any other medium wave frequency, complete with a clear station ID and very much out of season so-to-speak. I can’t remember recording any Medium Wave transatlantic signal with an […]

Bellevue to put a transportation property tax measure ($) on November’s ballot. Why you don’t see more 3-car trains. Issaquah’s $50m transportation bond in November includes a handful of bike lanes. Pierce Transit buses to get security cameras and free Wi-Fi by the end of the year. The premise of this Danny Westneat column ($) is […]

Angle Lake Station parking garage, to feature $5/month carpool parking permits starting Opening Day – Sounder Bruce The Operations & Administration Committee of the Sound Transit Board took action Thursday on several contracts, including the selection of the contractor to operate Sound Transit’s soon-to-be-permanent permit parking program. Republic Parking Northwest submitted the winning bid to […]

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Ridership and Crowding ($) (2:40) Not enough housing construction (16:10) Madison BRT improvements (23:50) Parking permits (30:00) ST3 costs (44:05) http://traffic.libsyn.com/seattletransitblog/STB_podcast_022.mp3 Note: apologies in advance for the microphone issues on Frank’s end. Sponsored by Talking Headways

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