Report: More consideration for bikes, peds for 520 plan Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) (As part of the ST2 ballot measure approved in 2008, Sound Transit plans to run light rail across I-90 in the Eastlink line to Bellevue, which will open in ... and more »

UW pushes for grander, costlier light-rail entrance Seattle Times Sound Transit and the University of Washington had agreed that the best way to connect the campus with the new Husky Stadium light-rail station was with a ... and more »

At a Seattle Chamber meeting last week, I asked SDOT Director Peter Hahn about Seattle's ranking as the most congested city in America. His answer was we need "more transit."

Arguing for more transit did not play well with a business-oriented audience because they happen to understand (and appreciate) fact-based performance measures.

The region produces about 14-15 million trips per day and only about 3 percent of these trips are taken on public transit. In fact, Sound Transit estimates that by the time its light rail line is complete by 2030, it will carry about 360,000 trips. This is ...

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King County Road Services Division recently announced the release of the Heritage Corridors final report, part of a two year project on which the Preservation 4Culture staff served as consultants. The report includes amazing images of early transportation routes; detail-rich maps; classic early-automobile ephemera; and, most importantly, an in-depth history of overland transportation in King County.

The project documents the story of over 100 years of road building in our region, and identifies nine significant “Heritage Corridors”, where travelers can ...

Transit experts say surface light-rail route would work for downtown Bellevue Seattle Times (blog) Noise has been a huge annoyance to homeowners along Sound Transit's initial line, near Mount Baker Station and in Tukwila. There's also a "ripple effect" on ...

Government openness needs new push in form of initiative Bellingham Herald Before it voted to condemn a Tacoma man's property, Sound Transit let him know by posting it on a vague agenda four-clicks deep on the agency's Web site. ...

Sound Transit officials have always claimed that light rail would be more efficient than buses. And if their ridership and cost projections were even close to being accurate, they might be right. In previous financial plans, Sound Transit calculated light rail would cost just over a dollar per boarding by 2009. In reality, during Central Link's first six months of operation, light rail's cost per boarding was a whopping $8.56. Sound Transit's buses cost $6.58 per boarding and its Sounder Commuter Rail cost $13.71 per boarding. To put this in perspective, the average operating cost for ...

Showing the love for the 520 bridge Seattle Times Sound Transit is engineering a train crossing on I-90 instead, and lacks money to cross 520. If that changes someday, more pontoons could be added beneath ... and more »

Bellevue City Council unanimous on new downtown light-rail tunnel Seattle Post Intelligencer The council voted 7-0 to approve a letter to Sound Transit expressing its support for that line and acknowledging that there are still cost and design ... and more »

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Could Seattle afford McGinn's light rail proposal? Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) His priority, he said, would be connecting westside neighborhoods such as Ballard, which are not served by Sound Transit's Central Link light rail line ... and more »