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Obama’s budget includes money for Lynnwood Link, Swift II, and the Center City Connector streetcar ($). The $1.2 billion for Link (out of a $2.4 billion project) far exceeds the $600m ST assumed in its planning. CCC still needs $60m. $43m for Swift II should just about cover it. The congressional outlook is optimistic. More Seattle […]

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CBC radio had Zach on yesterday to talk about Kevin Desmond and to compare Seattle and Vancouver. His segment begins at 1:27:40. Listen to it now.

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By the standards of most transit agency budgets, Sound Transit’s next round of rail expansion plans will be expensive. Critics, constructive or not, wonder if there’s a cheaper way. There is, in principle, if the transit agency can simply ignore other stakeholders instead of buying them off. The biggest savings comes from simply taking grade-separated […]

In the February 5 post on I-405 tolling, I described how WSDOT had agreed to changes in I-405 HOT lane operations. Those include toll-free travel for all vehicles on evenings, weekends and holidays. I should have also mentioned that changes to tolling remain subject to approval by the Washington State Transportation Commission. At this point, the […]

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Martin and I discuss Kevin Desmond’s new gig at TransLink, the firing of Lynn Peterson at WSDOT, and whether it’s possible to put more buses on the freeways. Oh, and then I encourage all the kids to get off my lawn. https://media.blubrry.com/seattletransitblog/s3.amazonaws.com/stb-wp/wp-content/podcasts/STB_podcast_010.mp3

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Don’t believe the hype; Seattle drivers are great. Want to serve on a HALA Community Focus Group? Applications are due Friday, February 26. Obama’s transportation budget is pretty great. Since it doesn’t stand a chance, Yonah Freemark gives it a simultaneous introduction and eulogy. Check out CityLab on light rail’s future in Seattle, featuring Seattle […]

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March Madness in rail line openings begins on the 5th in Los Angeles. The 11-mile, 6-station, Foothill Gold Line extension in the San Gabriel Valley opens March 5. When the Regional Connector through downtown LA opens in 2021, the Blue and Gold Lines will be joined, forming a continuous line 48.6 miles long between Long […]

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In the race to pander to people that object to any genuine escape from congestion, Jay Inslee’s latest entry is more of the same old thinking ($): He is advocating two projects: • Adding a lane on I-405 at Highway 520 to Northeast 70th Place in Kirkland, where it would become an exit-only lane. Costs might […]

[Update 11:30am: WSDOT responded that the MyNorthwest link reporting Good2Go identity theft is a 2013 issue that has been resolved. We’ve uploaded WSDOT’s full statement here.] I-405 HOT lanes saving bus riders an average of 7 minutes during peak. Othello Station is my favorite in terms of food available. Mason Transit GM resigns under a […]

MRN’s almost ready in Ballard #seattlenewconstruction #seattlerealestate #mrnhomes A photo posted by Kelly Deen Morse (@seattlenewconstruction) on Jan 11, 2016 at 11:37am PST A few interesting articles on housing and land use caught my eye recently. First up, Nick Fitzpatrick in Forbes: An Axiometrics study of two metropolitan areas – Dallas and the San Francisco […]

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Daniel Hertz, writing at City Observatory: Land costs are also part of why yearning for the old days of moderate-cost bungalows is unproductive. A century ago, in most cities, it was possible to find relatively cheap land within commuting distance of downtown—partly because the invention of streetcars had just radically expanded the definition of “commuting […]

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For our next podcast, which will air sometime next week, Frank and I plan to select some questions from readers. So if there’s any subject you’d like us to discuss or questions you’d like us to answer, put it in the comments below before Sunday evening and we’ll consider if we have anything remotely interesting to say about it.

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I’ve seen more than one news article recently that has someone discovering a family treasure of letters, books, postcards and memorabilia. And it made me realize how much of family history will be increasingly lost in this digital age. Oh sure, we can save a bagillion terabytes of data on a fingernail sized device, but […]

A fascinating new research called DROWN has uncovered a previously-unknown vulnerability in SSL v2, the first ever version of SSL that was released in 1995 and declared dead less than a year later. Even though this old version of SSL is not used much these days, it continues to be supported by many servers. The […]

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Martin and Frank discuss housing shortages, potential early wins for ST3, community feedback, water taxis, and dive into the reader mailbag. https://media.blubrry.com/seattletransitblog/s3.amazonaws.com/stb-wp/wp-content/podcasts/STB_podcast_011.mp3

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Big project at Othello breaks ground; rent starts at $450/month. Sound Transit restores funding for preliminary engineering to central Federal Way and Redmond, a previous casualty of the recession. Metro aiming for cameras on 100% of buses by 2021. Rough early counts suggest 3,000 FHSC boardings per weekday. Councilmembers O’Brien, Sawant, Johnson, and Juarez for saving […]

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The DROWN vulnerability shows new ways to attack TLS. Here is how the SSL Labs team tests for the DROWN vulnerability.

We are releasing an update to the grading criteria, version 2009l, to respond to the discovery of the DROWN attack. If a server is found to be vulnerable to DROWN it will be given an F, even though it might not support SSL v2 itself. (The nature of the DROWN vulnerability is such that servers […]

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