As Governor Inslee gets ready to throw bike/ped advocates under the bus, advocates fight back, including Seattle Bike Blog. The Montlake Pedestrian Bridge to UW Station is now open. Two King County Sheriff deputies may be fired after a Metro driver’s personal body camera revealed they lied about a confrontation with the bus driver. […]

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Last week, STB unveiled its 2015 city council primary endorsements. This was the first time we had gone through such an extensive interview process before making endorsements. We don’t have plans to do any more interviews, or make further endorsements, in the primary election. That doesn’t mean the rest of the ballot isn’t important. So, […]

First note: this blog post is very much tongue in cheek. I’m not actually planning on using the idea. But it was too fun not to share. As anyone following my activity on GitHub may be aware, I’ve been quite a lot of work on Protocol Buffers recently – in particular, a mostly-new port for … Continue reading “Sideways overriding” with partial methods →

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Another hit and run on Dexter Avenue N, this one thankfully with minor injuries. After turning himself in later in the day, the cellphone-staring driver was cited for failure to yield, but not charged. All that bluster about allowing cottages and townhomes in the 65% of Seattle zoned for single family homes? Nevermind. Hoping to bring […]

DMUs or Diesel Multiple Units are self-propelled rail cars. They are often used on suburban and rural lines. These training films are from the 1950s when first-generation DMUs were introduced to Britain.

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[Author’s note: The above video has little to do with city council issues. I put it up as an ode to flailing candidate Tony Provine and nihilist filmmaker Jean Luc Godard. Provine’s bulldozer’s-are-coming mailer is about as absurdist as a Godard flick. The only difference is that Provine is actually taking his delusions seriously.] The […]

At 8:15 tonight the first results of the August primary will be posted. Turnout has been estimated at 30%, but as of tonight only 15% of registered voters have returned ballots. In keeping with tradition most everywhere, the initial results are usually the least progressive on urbanist issues, with decent trending in our direction thereafter. And […]

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Toronto is building a crosstown LRT line. Current bus ridership in the corridor is over 78,000 daily. The 10-kilometer, 12-station, underground portion is about the same distance from the Ballard Locks to Children’s Hospital.

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Martin and I took some time to record a podcast this week. Topics include: SDOT’s preferred alignment for Ballard (3:10) Generally terrible land use patterns and how they affect transit (13:00) How to build affordable market-rate family housing in Brooklyn (27:30) LRT vs BRT for West Seattle (30:15) Moving from incremental ST measures to a single […]

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Today, after a year of work, Houston just revamped its bus network overnight, bringing better service to more people than ever before. Free rides for the first week so people can try it out. I like that off-peak service will be the same every day of the week. It gives a sense of dependability and […]

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Hey everyone, I am finally back from my many travels this summer and looking forward to doing some blogging this autumn. I’ll post some vacation photos when I have them sorted out. Until then, here’s an article that the nice … Continue reading →

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Today the first 5 of Metro’s 174 new trolley buses hit the streets. From here on, Metro will steadily roll out 110 of the 40′ coaches, while the 64 articulated 60-foot trolleys are anticipated to start rolling next year. All in all, the entire legacy fleet will be replaced within the next two years. Metro’s spokesperson […]

In 1968, director David Lynch created the short film “The Alphabet“, a bizarre and somewhat horrific recitation of the ABCs that seemingly invokes and reflects an extreme fear of learning. via reddit, Neatorama

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From commenter colorfast in What the Eastside wants from ST3: Parochialism will smother ST3 in the crib. The notion of restricting expenditures to within arbitrary geographic or jurisdictional boundaries that are invisible to real travel patterns is absurd. ST3 investments need to prioritize serving corridors where the highest travel demand exists today and in the future; […]

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Seattle’s transit infrastructure is years behind what it should be to accommodate current ridership, let alone the thousand or more human beings sinking roots in our city every month. The Move Seattle levy, assuming voters approve it in November, will be a good step forward – but we’ll still be playing catch-up. What if Seattle […]

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Video is about renewing infrastructure and rolling stock but don’t forget about the operating plan.