Every now and then there is a simple fix to an existing inefficiency that improves transit access, decreases travel time, and costs very little. Such an opportunity exists at the Olive Way/Melrose Ave on-ramp to northbound I-5. In a well-known story, in 2005 Anirudh Sahni successfully lobbied for a morning-only Capitol Hill stop for Sound [...]
Next Thursday Transportation Choices Coalition (TCC) in coordination with a variety of other transportation and land use advocacy groups is hosting a day-long conference focused on transportation funding. The various panel discussions will focus the new funding environment created by MAP-21, local and regional funding in the Puget Sound region, what future funding might look like, [...]
[Update 9:12pm: Metro has now posted rider alerts at the relevant stops, explaining that the stop in front of the auto parts store is going away. My experience on Monday notwithstanding, drivers are not to serve the new stop until Saturday. As if to give me one final middle finger, my transfer from the more distant [...]
With the Ride Free Area’s (RFA) demise in a matter of days, those in need of a free ride in the downtown area are not entirely out of luck. Solid Ground, a local social service agency, will be operating a free circulator which will run a fixed-route one-way loop within downtown, Belltown, and First Hill. [...]
I wasn’t actually at this stop, and can’t confirm whether this was the actual situation on the ground or OneBusAway weirdness. But for a 15-minute headway bus on a Saturday afternoon, yikes. [Update: Numerous commenters say they witnessed this.]
I’m gonna take a moment to make a pitch for Transportation Choices Coalition’s annual event, which is set to play host to a very special guest, Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff. Because Rogoff is such an important power player for transit in Washington DC, the opportunity to hear him speak will be considerably valuable. While [...]
Bellevue is in the midst of updating its Transit Master Plan (TMP), which will serve as a much-needed update to the 2003 plan, adopted once upon a time when transit took a backseat to other transportation priorities. Since then, ridership in Bellevue has increased nearly twofold from 22,000 daily boardings in 2003 to over 40,000 [...]
A comprehensive road pricing scheme for British Columbia? ST releases Capitol Hill station plans. Martin is starting to break out in hives when people say “plaza” and “light rail station” in the same sentence, so no further comment. Fare hikes for Intercity Transit? U-Link supply tracks’ usefulness coming to an end. Finally, something may be [...]
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