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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 … ...

Sound Transit is in the early stages of building Stride 3, a new bus rapid transit service. It will run along SR-522 and Northeast 145th Street between Bothell and Shoreline South/148th Station.

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 ...

Toronto’s GO commuter rail electrification and expansion has been downscaled and delayed. (RMTransit) Deutsche Bahn was going to make it like an S-Bahn, with all-day frequent service on several lines ...

KUOW’s Week in Review podcast today discusses several relevant topics: Kshama Sawant will leave the Seattle city council this term to form a national movement. The state legislature is considering a ...

This afternoon, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat had an excellent, but inartfully headlined, scoop: Mayor Ed Murray’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda committee (HALA–rhymes with ...

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.