King County Metro Route 5 travels inbound from Shoreline Community College to downtown Seattle, primarily on Greenwood Ave N ...

CityNerd on the Pike Place and Pike Street pedestrianizations, interviewed by Kenji López-Alt. (CityNerd) Why Americans don’t walk to school anymore. It’s about the sidewalks. (Evan ...

The 5th annual Week Without Driving is next week, from September 29 to October 5. Started by Seattle-based disability advocate Anna Zivarts in 2021, Week Without Driving has since grown to ...

Local Transit News: Construction of RapidRide I is set to begin this fall (Metro Matters). After ventilation issues shut down light rail multiple times ($) over the past week, Sound Transit’s have … ...

It has 4 lines, each running every 3-6 minutes and operating 24/7. Ridership is an average of 344,000 per day. Two ...

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Sounder, Sound Transit’s commuter rail service. On the morning of September 18, 2000 ...

CityNerd looks at South Lake Union, its walkability and bicycle lanes, the notoriously unreliable route 8, the wide stroads, and Big Tech’s hidden motives for “colonizing” downtown areas. How are the ...

Excerpts from the 1975 novel Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach. Twenty years earlier in 1955, California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the US to form a sustainable environmentalist utopia.

The next 18 months may be the most important period of Sound Transit history as it tries to close a $30-40 billion program gap (The Urbanist). Additional coverage by the Seattle Times ($). Mayor ...

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The first ever bus routes. (The Tim Traveler) Hint: They’re in France and have to do with Blaise Pascal. Three good things about Metro buses and ST Express by a visitor. (Trains are Awesome) ...