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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This month I released an updated version of SSL/TLS Deployment Best practices—my favourite SSL Labs publication—bringing the document up to date again. Given that the previous release was a long time ago (December 2014!), this version has quite a few changes and improvements. Now, despite the numerous changes, the advice didn’t change that much. The […]

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.

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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