Gerstel notches journalism, theater awards

Mercer Island Reporter 3/11 7:30A Wire Service

Mercer Island High School senior Kyle Gerstel received the Lu Flannery Outstanding Journalist Award from the Washington Journalism Education Association....

MI demonstrators call for release of hostages from Gaza

Mercer Island Reporter 3/10 7:10A Wire Service

About 150 people attended a demonstration on Mercer Island on March 9 to call for the release of hostages still...

Bellevue College Transit Hub with Gondola

Seattle Transit Blog 3/10 2:00A Martin Pagel

Currently most bus lines on the eastside are radiating from the Bellevue Transit Center. With the growth of Bellevue College and with the city s efforts to make the campus more transit friendly, Metro...

Sunday Movie: Excessive Studies

Seattle Transit Blog 3/9 2:00A Mike Orr

Why it takes so long to build transit, studies edition. (RMTransit) This is an open thread.

Donaldson and Rundle will speak at March 18 Rotary meeting

Mercer Island Reporter 3/8 5:30A Wire Service

Former Seattle Supersonic James Donaldson and Mercer Island School District Superintendent Fred Rundle will speak at the Rotary Club of...

Redmond Link Stations and Walkability

Seattle Transit Blog 3/7 12:00A Wesley Lin

This article will provide a brief overview of Redmond s Link stations walkability and bikeability. It s a followup to our Redmond Station Areas article a year ago. In the Starter Line segment that...

Ridership Patterns for King County Metro Route 160

Seattle Transit Blog 3/6 12:00A Michael Smith

King County Metro route 160 travels inbound from Auburn Transit Center to Renton Transit Center, via Kent and Benson Hill. Outbound trips travel in the reverse direction. In January 2025, Route 160...

Midweek Roundup: Dog Bus

Seattle Transit Blog 3/5 12:00A Nathan Dickey

66 days until the Downtown Redmond Link Extension opens . Transportation: Trump Officials Delay Expected Approval Date for West Seattle Light Rail as part of the administration s chaotic efforts to cut spending (The Urbanist) Sound Transit has a...

DADS came to visit us, so we went to visit DADS | Hamer

Mercer Island Reporter 3/3 9:44A Wire Service

Mercer Island Rotary Club (mirotary.org) just awarded them a $2,500 grant to support their work.

SODO guideway construction

Seattle Transit Blog 3/3 4:47A Martin Pagel

At last week s Sound Transit Board meeting, Sound Transit s West Seattle project manager Brad Owen showed the extend of the guideway from the SODO station along the Spokane viaduct, across Highway 99...

Sunday Movies: Utrecht & Cable-Stayed Bridges

Seattle Transit Blog 3/2 12:00A Mike Orr

A tale of two cities: Utrecht and Fake London (Ontario, Canada). (Not Just Bikes) Both were walkable streetcar towns before cars, both went in a car-oriented direction in the mid 20th century. But in the 1990s Utrecht changed course and is now a...

Ballard Light Rail At-Grade

Seattle Transit Blog 2/28 12:00A Wesley Lin

Originally around 2013, the Ballard Link Extension was envisioned as an at-grade alternative. Transit advocates and others pushed for complete grade separation for faster speed and reliability. Sound...

MIHS Black Student Union hosts community dinner

Mercer Island Reporter 2/27 7:30A Wire Service

Mercer Island High School s Black Student Union hosted its third annual dinner on Feb. 26 in the school commons. The...

Issaquah Gondola

Seattle Transit Blog 2/27 12:00A Martin Pagel

As Issaquah continues to grow, traffic has become a challenge. With I-90 running through the city and with major elevation differences between west and east, the few arteries are getting clogged. Now...

Midweek Roundup: State of the City

Seattle Transit Blog 2/26 12:00A Nathan Dickey

Note: the site recently experienced downtime due to a clerical error, and is slowly coming back online. Apologies for the inconvenience. Management. 73 days until the Downtown Redmond Link Extension opens . Sounder Alert: Sound Transit sent an...