Sunday, February 23, 2025

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Seattle May Revamp its TBD

Back in 2014, Seattle voters approved a $60 license fee and 0.1% sales tax for a Transportation Business District (TBD) that would fund bus service through 2021. Originally conceived as a way to avoid bus cuts after a countywide...

It’s Time to Make the ORCA Passport Program Work for All

By Joel Sisolak, Senior Director of Sustainability and Planning, Capitol Hill Housing If you have an ORCA card, there’s a good chance you got it through your employer or your apartment building. The largest group of ORCA users get their pass that...

We Need Your Support

This past week I was contacted out of the blue by someone who’d newly returned to Seattle, found an old post of mine here on the blog, and wanted to meet to learn more about the history of transit...

Monorail can be HCT, Study Says

Earlier this month, VIA architecture released its study of the potential for higher capacity and usage of the Seattle Center Monorail. Though activists had been asking for years for ORCA integration to bring the independent line into the fare...

Sunday Open Thread: Morgantown

A look at a unique automated transit system that represents an idea people have proposed from time to time but never became mainstream.

News Roundup: Breaking Ground

County proposes putting hotel/motel taxes to use for affordable housing Capitol Hill TOD breaks ground Where the growth is happening in the region What’s up with the fans in the I-90 tunnel How interactive mapping helped sell MHA ...

King County restarting Northgate TOD project over City Council objections

A map of the site from the original RFP’s fact sheet. Courtesy Metro. In a surprise move earlier this month, King County officials decided to restart the process that could eventually construct hundreds of affordable housing units within walking distance...

About Last Night: Look at This Photograph

Every time I do it makes me laugh When something as joyous and heartwarming as yesterday’s walk-off win happens, it’s easy to fall victim to clichés about magic and teams of destiny and things of that nature. While none of...

“Same ol’ Mariners” no more: M’s sweep Angels on Haniger homer

Sweepsmas has come early, my friends, and it’s time to celebrate “Same ol’ Mariners.” It’s a common refrain, and a well-deserved one at that. When you have the longest current playoffs drought across all North American professional teams, when your team...

Podcast #62: Iconic Parking Lots

Head tax (2:09) Transportation Benefit District (16:27) Move Seattle reset (32:33) Northgate TOD (44:43) http://traffic.libsyn.com/seattletransitblog/STB_podcast_062.mp3

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