1+ week, 2+ day ago   (543+ words) The combined headways of the two lines gives riders frequent service between Lynnwood and the International District, with trains arriving every four to five minutes. Sound Transit has pledged to keep riders abreast of opening festivities on its Pinehurst website,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1185+ words) The passage of the Connect Tacoma: Safe Streets and Sidewalks levy marked a sea change in voter attitude. Just last April, a more ambitious transportation measure failed at the ballot box. But this year, the levy garnered nearly 60% of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (542+ words) On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors approved the creation of a fare gate retrofit program set to use $6 million that has been queued up to design a gate pilot at 14 high-ridership Link stations. Those design and planning funds…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (650+ words) Sound Transit's timeline to deliver light rail to West Seattle has slipped to 2035, three years later than its last estimate, the agency confirmed Thursday. Sound Transit's acting Chief Capital Delivery Officer Brad Owen delivered the news during the board's System…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (315+ words) Many questions remain unanswered when it comes to how Sound Transit will actually implement a fare gate program, including for riders under 18 years of age who currently do not have to present any fare media thanks to the statewide Youth…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (322+ words) Last Friday, Sound Transit told the public that under the status quo, rail won't reach Ballard until "around 2060." While this dire timeline does not surprise us, it is wildly unacceptable. That said, we are also grateful that Sound Transit heard…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (505+ words) On August 29, Metro will implement the third and final phase of its Lynnwood Link Connections restructure, timed to coincide with the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup and the opening of the Pinehurst light rail station at NE 130th Street. Full…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (440+ words) Sound Transit is proposing a spate of service changes for 2027 in a draft plan. The plan includes higher frequencies on a truncated Route 560, a new freeway bus stop pair on I-405 for Routes 532 and 535, and potential service reductions to Link light…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (411+ words) "We depend on transit, and we will buy as many transit hours from Metro as they will provide us," Councilmember Dan Strauss said. Around $25 million per year in STM funding will maintain service on the Seattle Streetcar network, as costs…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (220+ words) As early as 1972, Bellevue's chief city planner, Fred Herman, lamented that the pedestrian was merely a "pipsqueak" in the city's auto-oriented urban core. His vision of a safer, pedestrian-oriented city was never realized in his time. But today, a new…...