Everybody remember the recently-completed repaving of 85th St, which screwed up the 48 schedule for much of last year? Well, because that was so much fun, we’re gonna do it all again! Starting this spring, using money from the Bridging the Gap initiative, SDOT is going to repave Northgate Way/105th St from Meridian to Greenwood; [...]
In just over two weeks, a day will come which many readers and authors of this blog have long awaited: the last, lonely trip of Metro Route 42. Once a major route serving Martin Luther King Way, with the third-highest ridership in Southeast Seattle, it was rendered superflous by the opening of Central Link and [...]
I’m continuing STB’s longstanding tradition of the Transit Report Card series, where a writer will review the transit and land use picture of another city after a visit. I’m pleased to be kicking off the return of the series by thoroughly reviewing Seoul, South Korea. Instead of assigning letter grades, I’ve opted to focus on in-depth [...]
In the first post in this series, there were some great recommendations on how to change the land footprint graph. In my original version, I graphed the number of blocks in our region that fall into a given land area per person. The suggestion was to instead plot the number of people living at a [...]
Last month Community Transit produced the draft update to its six year Transit Development Plan. Their vision is an appealing one: prioritized transit corridors that travel through intensively used land. However, CT has (hopefully) completed a period of austerity that cut 37% of its service and over 200 employees, including the abolition of all Sunday [...]
Kitsap Transit adopts its 2013 goals. Deep Bore Tunnel tolling plan is in disarray. City of Tacoma rejects the idea of city funding for transit, plus details of PT route cuts. Richard Conlin says some nice things about apodments. Noise concerns during U District Station construction. Proposed SLU building heights not a problem for Kenmore [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about making transit work better at the two stops at Fremont & 34th. Those two stops are among the busiest, and most readily improvable, stops in north Seattle, and I was happy to receive an email from the Mayor’s office last week indicating that work was in progress [...]
Thanks to alert reader Reyes Ojeda, we have the latest Community Transit System Performance Report, which has tons of route ridership and park-and-ride utilization data. Year-on-year boardings on the bus system were down 7.6% on a 21.6% decline in revenue hours, a consequence of cutting the least productive service. The format of this report reveals [...]
by VICTOR OBESO Bruce Nourish recently voiced his opinion about Metro Transit’s Route 16 – a long-time Metro route that has been serving Fifth Avenue North by the Seattle Center for many years. Despite his claims to the contrary, we care deeply about our customers. Readers and riders know there are always trade-offs when designing [...]