Friday, March 14, 2025

Seattle

News Roundup: Finally

Don’t believe the hype on microtransit. 144 affordable homes going in at Mt. Baker. Finally. Construction beginning over Capitol Hill Station. Finally. 3,000 Metro drivers, an all-time high. Tweaks to Lynnwood Link Station designs. ST has a new...

Bellevue Prepares for Autonomous Vehicle Transit

The CommutePool service (image: City of Bellevue) Bellevue is planning a “CommutePool” network of autonomous rideshare services. The goal is to launch the service in 2019, connecting riders from southeast King County to major employers in Bellevue and Kirkland. Last week, Bellevue...

Olympia Quietly Helps Affordable Housing

Before and After (Mt. Baker Housing/Mithun Architecture) Transit and Urbanism advocates are used to a defensive crouch when hearing news from Olympia. But buried in a supplemental budget earlier this spring, the Departments of Ecology and Commerce created a great...

Sound Transit to use PTC on all Sounder trips by December

Sounder South at Safeco Field. Credit: Andy Tucker Sound Transit will implement positive train control (PTC) on all Sounder trips by the end of 2018, according to Sound Transit Director of Systems Engineering Peter Brown. In a presentation to the Sound...

East Link News: Downtown Redmond Almost Ready For Proposals, Construction Elsewhere Progressing

The future Bellevue Downtown Station, at the north end of the almost finished tunnel Last Thursday, the Sound Transit Board was briefed about progress on East Link and the related Downtown Redmond Link Extension. East Link construction has been well...

Podcast #63: On an Optimistic Note

0:00 – intro 2:19 – CCC to Trolleybus 9:19 – ORCA 10:50 – Gondola 15:41 – Montlake transfers 22:48 – Northgate truncation? 27:04 – Strategies for advocacy 31:15 – Rainier BRT 32:25 – CCC’s future 33:39 – link transfers ...

ORCAized RRFPs Now Free For the First One

As part of the fare restructure that brought King County Metro’s $2.75 regular flat fare, effective this week, King County Metro has gotten all four counties in the ORCA pod to make the first Regional Reduced Fare Permit free...

Submit Podcast Mailbag Questions Here

Frank and I are going to tape another podcast mailbag. Please put your questions in the comments below this afternoon. As always, try to keep it to a single question, and make it one that can actually be answered....

Dog Runs Across 520 Bridge

  Driving toward Seattle on the SR 520 Monday morning, some drivers may have saw a white ball of fur running toward them on the right shoulder.   It wasn’t their imagination. A small white dog was indeed trotting against rush hour...
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