Sunday Movie: Mexico City BRT

Seattle Transit Blog 4/12 12:00A Mike Orr

Mexico City elevated trolleybus BRT line. Elevated light rail would have cost 2 1/2 times more. (TransitWorld) Scooby Doo and the Goblin King has a YouTube channel with raw footage of several Metro, Community Transit, and Sound Transit bus models...

1 & 2 Line Experiences

Seattle Transit Blog 4/11 12:00A Mike Orr

Lynnwood-bound 2 Line train entering the Mount Baker Tunnel. Now that the full 2 Line has been running for two weeks, what has been your experience on the 1 and 2 Lines since the first regular weekday...

Friday Roundtable: Intercity Bus Routes

Seattle Transit Blog 4/10 1:30A Michael Smith

Map of intercity routes in the United States (University of Illinois) The Urban Traffic & Economics Lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has created GFTS (General Transit Feed Specification)...

Midweek Roundup: Bus McBusBus

Seattle Transit Blog 4/8 12:00A Nathan Dickey

ST s monthly extended overnight maintenance program heads to the Eastside next week : Link 2 Line service between Bel-Red and Downtown Redmond will be replaced by shuttles after 10pm each evening on April 14-17. Local Transit: Riders of the...

Sound Transit Express Night Bus service

Seattle Transit Blog 4/6 12:00A Wesley Lin

ST Express Overnight Proposal Map by Sound Transit Overnight proposal map pdf Previously we talked about the pilot route of Sound Transit s overnight bus service which launched last weekend from...

Sunday Movies: Plazas & Detroit

Seattle Transit Blog 4/5 12:00A Mike Orr

The best US plazas. (CityNerd) What is Detroit like? (CityNerd) This is an open thread.

Alert: T Line Maintenance This Week

Seattle Transit Blog 4/4 1:54A Michael Smith

T Line train passing Pierce Transit Route 57. The Link T Line in Tacoma will be closed and replaced by free shuttle buses between 6pm on Monday (April 6) until the start of service on Friday (April...

Friday Roundtable: New Metro Stop Schedules

Seattle Transit Blog 4/3 1:02A Michael Smith

Old (left) an and new (center) example bus stop schedule for the H Line. (Metro) Metro has announced a new stop schedule design that will roll out over the next few weeks. This is the first redesign...

Crosslake Movies

Seattle Transit Blog 4/2 5:14A Mike Orr

Movies on Crosslake Link s opening last Saturday. Miles in Transit. Classy Whale. Trains are Awesome. Unedited video of the speeches (starting at the five minute mark ) as well as some of the initial riders ( much later in the video). The rest of...

Foolish Roundup

Seattle Transit Blog 4/1 3:00A Nathan Dickey

An elaborate 2001 April Fools Day prank in Copenhagen lampooned ongoing construction of the city s driverless Metro system, which would open in 2002 (Lars Andersen, Wikimedia) It s April 1 and today...

Midweek Roundup: the next Williamsburg

Seattle Transit Blog 4/1 12:00A Nathan Dickey

A temporary community art project accepted the painting talents of any interested attendees of the Crosslake Connection opening celebration (Nathan Dickey). The Crosslake Connection of the 2 Line was...

Ribbon-cutting for Crosslake Connection marks public transit to both sides of Lake Washington

Shoreline Area News 3/30 12:39A DKH

Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray hold the scissors, surrounded by other electeds and Sound Transit leaders. Photo courtesy Sound Transit This final 7-mile section of the 2 Line crosses the Homer M. Hadley floating bridge over Lake...

Cross-Lake Link 2 expansion opening day experience

Shoreline Area News 3/30 12:03A Carl Dinse

Downtown Bellevue in the background, Lake Washington and the I-90 Floating Bridge as viewed from Sound Transit Link 2. Photo by Carl Dinse By Carl Dinse I didn't brave the early morning crowds and...

Sunday Movie: Inside the SR-520 floating bridge rebuild

Seattle Transit Blog 3/29 12:40A Nathan Dickey

This is an Open Thread. Comments may discuss any topic related to transit or land use. Uncivil comments will be moderated.

TCC Light Rail Town Halls

Seattle Transit Blog 3/28 1:00A Guest Contributor

BY TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION As many of you all learned last week , Sound Transit is facing significant cost projections for its Sound Transit 3 projects. Over the next few months, the Sound Transit Board will have to have some hard...