Midweek Roundup: growth, gains, and greatness

Seattle Transit Blog 9/17 12:48A Nathan Dickey

Local Transit News: Sound Transit Outlines Promising Everett Link Cost Reductions, Bleaker Seattle News (The Urbanist). STB article in the works. Seattle eyes electric cargo bikes for greener deliveries (The Seattle Times, $) Sound Transit...

Sunday Movie: SLU and the L8

Seattle Transit Blog 9/14 2:00A Mike Orr

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 Sunday Movies going? Do you like the mix of...

Fixing Stride 3

Seattle Transit Blog 9/13 2:00A Ross Bleakney

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. Additional right-of-way will be added along parts...

Friday Roundtable: Ecotopia Transit

Seattle Transit Blog 9/12 12:00A Mike Orr

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. Since then there has been a cold war and little...

ST Rider Experience Meeting 9/4

Seattle Transit Blog 9/11 7:38A Mike Orr

I was going to Uwajimaya on September 4th for a routine shopping trip. I got off a 14 bus at Union Station, when right in front of me was a sign for a Sound Transit board meeting. So I went inside to see it. I thought it was the full board...

Midweek Roundup: historic test

Seattle Transit Blog 9/9 9:52P Nathan Dickey

The first East Link train under its own power on the floating bridge! Bruce Englehardt (@sounderbruce.bsky.social) 2025-09-09T07:15:09.938Z Bruce Englehardt ( photographer , wikipedian , and former STB contributor ) posted photos of Sound Transit...

Speeding Up Routes 3 and 4

Seattle Transit Blog 9/9 2:00A Guest Contributor

By KIAN NAEEMI The Harborview Medical Center area is a bottleneck afflicted with crushing traffic. Multiple roads funnel traffic east into James Street, where traffic then struggles onto I-5. At the same time, bus routes 3 and 4 are trying to...

Sound Transit Completes Live Wire Test on Floating Bridge

Seattle Transit Blog 9/9 12:00A Michael Smith

For the first time in history, a light rail vehicle has crossed a floating bridge under its own power. Just before midnight Monday evening, Link vehicle 219 traveled between Mercer Island station and...

Friday Roundtable: Waterfront Park Grand Opening

Seattle Transit Blog 9/5 12:00A Michael Smith

Over the past two decades, the City of Seattle, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Port of Seattle, Friends of Waterfront Park, Downtown Seattle Association, Seattle Center, King...

Midweek Roundup: mid-life overhaul

Seattle Transit Blog 9/2 11:48P Nathan Dickey

The next 18 months may be the most important period of Sound Transit history as it tries to close a $30-40 billion program gap (The Urbanist). Additional coverage by the Seattle Times ($). Mayor Harrell thinks a new technical advisory group and...

Sunday Movies: Seattle & Vancouver Waterfronts by Bike

Seattle Transit Blog 8/31 12:00A Mike Orr

Biking the new Seattle waterfront and East Marginal Way with Greg Spotts, former SDOT director. (Best Side Cycling) Biking the Vancouver Seawall Trail. (City Beautiful) It goes 28 km (17 miles) around Stanley Park, around False Creek, and along...

Fall 2025 Service Change

Seattle Transit Blog 8/29 12:00A Michael Smith

The Fall Service Change is upon us and most of the transit agencies in Puget Sound have updates to their network. These changes will take effect over the next few weeks, starting as soon as tomorrow,...

Federal Way Link to open on Dec. 6

Seattle Transit Blog 8/28 7:27A Nathan Dickey

This morning, Sound Transit announced the official opening day of the Federal Way Link Extension, which will extend the 1 Line to three new stations beyond its current terminus at Angle Lake. An...

Ridership Patterns for Link 1 Line

Seattle Transit Blog 8/25 3:00A Michael Smith

The Link 1 Line runs between Angle Lake in SeaTac and Lynnwood via Tukwila, Seattle, Shoreline, and Mountlake Terrace. In May 2025, the 1 Line had 105,586 average weekday boardings. The 1 Line...

Sunday Movies: CAHSR & Los Angeles Expansion

Seattle Transit Blog 8/24 2:00A Mike Orr

California high-speed rail is good, is well under construction, is likely to survive federal grant loss, and could be improved with a conventional-speed interim extension. (Adam Fisher) Los Angeles has big rail and BRT expansion plans. (Nick...