A pickup truck heading the wrong way in the Interstate 90 express lanes on Mercer Island slammed head-on into a Sound Transit bus loaded with passengers, shutting down the express lanes for an hour and a half Thursday night.

SPD: On December 31st, at approximately 1:50 am, a 25-year old man was waiting in the bus shelter at Rainier Avenue South and South Myrtle Street.  He was approached by three males who began  assaulting the man by hitting him in the head and face. His wallet containing cash was then taken by the suspects.  The [...]

First funding piece in place for Puyallup's EZRA project TheNewsTribune.com Sound Transit also stands to benefit from a BRT project because many Pierce Transit riders use the existing service along Meridian to access the downtown ...

Editor's note: Continuing our series of Best Crosscuts of 2009, here's an essay originally posted on May 21, 2009.

Okay, this is really interesting because it turns some conventional wisdom on its head. It turns out that the suburbs are not populated with urban refugees. Writing at NewGeography, Wendell Cox comes across what he calls an "unexpected truth:"

Much has been written about how suburbs have taken people away from the city and that now suburbanites need to return back to where they came. But in reality most suburbs of large cities have grown not from the ...

Although the Antiplanner spends a lot of blog posts ranting about rail transit, the truth is that all of the rail disasters of the last decade together did not cost nearly as much as certain other government planning disasters that the Antiplanner will cover later this week. Yet new rail transit lines can impose huge [...]

As Mayor-elect Mike McGinn prepares to move into City Hall, it's a good time to check in on the region’s most contentious mega-project. Whatever you thought of last January's decision to pursue a bored tunnel through downtown to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, you should be paying attention again now. Some rather serious problems are emerging for Seattle, and decision points are looming.

Planning for the tunnel project has been underway for about a year. While much of the data about its engineering, risks, and impacts are still under wraps, there has been no shortage of public discussion on ...

TRANSIT: Light rail lacks one useful component TheNewsTribune.com Sound Transit officials say they aren't disappointed with the drop in Link light rail ridership in the month after it began. ...

Council puts aside reservations, accepts $400000 trails grant Issaquah Press The council accepted a $400000 Sound Transit grant to complete a $6 million link from the state Route 900 boardwalk at the eastbound I-90 off-ramp south of ...

Streetcar cost overruns: What about the next line? istockAnalyst.com (press release) --Sound Transit recently agreed to supply $132 million in voter-approved funds, mainly sales-tax revenue, to build and operate a new streetcar line, ... and more »

No more light rail for operator who caused derailment Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Sound Transit spokesman Bruce Gray says the operator responsible for a light rail derailment in November won't be returning to her job driving trains. ... and more »