Seattle Transit Blog – Covering Transit and Land Use in the Greater ...
4 days ago · Transit & Streets: Mike Lindblom profiles Beacon Hill’s “magic median”, a space filled with greenery, trails, and parking (The Seattle Times, $).; While other states reconsider highway expansion, WSDOT continues building (The Urbanist).; An extensive SDOT study shows the once-contentious Stay Healthy Street on Alki is popular and works well (Seattle Bike Blog)
Seattle Transit Blog – Covering Transit and Land Use in the Greater ...
Jan 17, 2025 · The Seattle Times ($) is reporting that recently-released 2023 Census data indicates the percentage of households in Seattle which do not own or lease a car reached 20% in 2023, the highest proportion since the Census started tracking rates of vehicle ownership:. There were roughly 365,000 households in Seattle in 2023. Of those, around 74,000, or just over 20%, did not have a car.
King County Metro’s Projects 2025 and Beyond
1 day ago · From the recent RapidRide prioritization reports, Metro plans to build the RapidRide I line (Renton via Kent to Auburn) by 2027 and the RapidRide J line (Downtown Seattle to U District) by 2027. Notably on January 15, 2025 the RapidRide I line received a $79.7 million dollar federal grant. Below the ...
Link Reliability Issues Declared an “Emergency”
19 hours ago · On January 21, Sound Transit interim CEO Goran Sparrman identified Link’s ongoing reliability issues as an emergency, allowing him to issue a $1.5 million contract to HNTB to plan and design fixes to several problems with Sound Transit’s operational and network infrastructure.. The Seattle Times ($) summarized the problems identified by Sound Transit as “contributing to delays”:
Open Payments coming to ORCA – Seattle Transit Blog
2 days ago · During a recent meeting, the ORCA Joint Board quietly approved implementation of a long-desired feature for the One Regional Card for All (ORCA) system: the ability to pay fares with a contactless (“tap-to-pay”) credit or debit card or a smartphone mobile wallet. This marks a major step along ...
Midweek Roundup: Magic Median – Seattle Transit Blog
3 days ago · Transit & Streets: Mike Lindblom profiles Beacon Hill’s “magic median”, a space filled with greenery, trails, and parking (The Seattle Times, $).; While other states reconsider highway expansion, WSDOT continues building (The Urbanist).; An extensive SDOT study shows the once-contentious Stay Healthy Street on Alki is popular and works well (Seattle Bike Blog)
Most read & commented STB posts of 2024 – Seattle Transit Blog
Dec 31, 2024 · This year saw a handful of new writers join STB’s staff and a few excellent serial posts sparking good discussion. In the transit world, we saw the opening of the RapidRide G Line, the Link 2 Line Starter Line, the Lynnwood Link Extension, bus restructures in King and Snohomish Counties, and continued rebound in ridership from the lows of 2020.
Community Transit Restructure – 2024 and Beyond
Sep 13, 2024 · Around Bothell, Community Transit will be deleting existing Route 105 with service supplanted by Swift Green Line and extending existing 30 minute peak / hourly weekend Route 120 to UW Bothell/ Cascadia.. Route 106, 120, 121 changes CT System map of Mill Creek and Bothell. There is also the new Route 121 and adjusting Route 106‘s hours though continuing with hourly frequency.
Sunday Movie: Link and Housing – Seattle Transit Blog
Dec 22, 2024 · Depends a lot on where you park. If you park in a satellite lot, waiting for the shuttle can eat up a lot of time. Parking in the garage avoids this, but you have to pay for the time saved with a much higher daily parking rate.
RapidRide Future and Prioritization – Seattle Transit Blog
Jul 23, 2024 · Following major cuts to RapidRide expansions due to budget constraints posed by the pandemic, the King County Council asked Metro in 2021 to, among other things, produce a “RapidRide prioritization plan” by the middle of this year. Metro published its plan on June 28, in which it chooses the next RapidRide lines to build as …