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- ▼ 2008
- ▼ November
(64)
- Groundbreaking for Swift
- Capitol Hill Station Discussion on KUOW
- "Subsidy" is a Loaded Word
- Amtrak Cascades Part Three: Funding and Expansion of Service
- Looking to take the Cascades for Thanksgiving?
- In Fact, King County Subsidizes Seattle Buses
- Top Ten Signs You're a Transit Geek
- Metro's Fare Hike Not Quite Enough
- New Look Pioneer Square Station
- Canada Delaying Amtrak Improvements
- Metro Fare Hike Approved
- News Round-Up
- Capitol Hill Business Mitigation
- BRT in Eugene
- Intercity Travel On Public Transit
- ST Express Service Changes
- FTA: $813 Million for Univesity Link
- Viaduct Replacement Options
- 520 Bridge Survey
- ST Link Update
- "Terminal" vs "Not in Service"
- Q&A - Seattle to Portland Information
- PTBA Campaigns
- NYT: Tram Sales Booming
- Expanding Sounder
- STB Meet-Up @ Collins Pub, 7 pm (Wed)
- PTBA and Rural Sounder
- Developing A Plan Of Attack, Part 1
- What it Means to Have an Urban President
- Another Chance to Board a LINK Train
- Sound Transit Circa 2023
- Metro Budget Shortfall
- Automakers: Not-Transit Related
- More Post Prop. 1 Thoughts
- Veterans Day Service Reductions
- Amtrak Cascades SEA-VAC - Part Two
- Al Gore agrees
- China's $586 Billion Stimulus Plan
- King Street Station Update
- Meet-Up
- Rock and Roll Train
- The Blue Duwamish
- Amtrak Cascades - SEA-PDX Part One
- A Little Cruel
- Transportation Secretary
- 45 Minutes From Microsoft To 405
- Rain + Mudslides + Rush Hour Traffic = One heck of a mess....
- What's Next
- Past and Future
- Mea Culpa
- Reflection
- Thank You
- A Mandate
- U.S. Transit Measures + Cali HSR Prop 1A
- Prop. 1 Passes
- What to Look for Tonight
- My Closing Statement
- My Closing Statement: More Than Just A Train
- Closing Argument
- I-985 Coverage
- UW's The Daily on U-Pass Consolidation
- News Round-Up
- Something to Ruin Your Weekend
- We Won't Know if Prop. 1 Passes Tuesday Night
- ► October
(75)
- Seattle Times Rips I-985
- World's Best Commutes
- When was the last time you were stuck in gridlock at 5am?
- Even Conservatives Don't Like I-985
- What?
- Metro Priorities
- The Seattle Times Can't Handle Simple Math
- BRT v Rail in the Times
- Light Rail Shade?
- Pierce Transit Cutting Staff
- King Street Station Clock
- Prop 1 still up in polling
- Sounder North commuters may see small delays
- "Traffic Calming"
- Train Safety Effort
- AIG's troubles hurt transit systems, including Metro
- News Roundup
- Re: Rapid Ride Buses May Not Materialize
- Rapid Ride Buses May Not Materialize
- Capitol Hill Station Fighter Jets
- "No" Campaign's ads
- "Never Misses a Chance to Miss a Chance"
- Links
- Now THIS is how bus transit should be done!
- BAT Lanes on 45th St
- Shock: Bellevue Downtown Association endorses Prop 1!
- Westneat: Foot Ferries "ridiculous"
- Capitol Hill Open House
- Endorsements
- Links
- ...but we don't need mass transit...
- Stanwood to get Amtrak stop
- Wishes
- Seattle Times and Prop 1
- I-90 HOV Lanes
- Proposition 1 and the Economy
- Transit Now Website Updated
- Prop 1 Endorsement
- No Metro Fare Increase Next Month
- Seattle P-I Endorses Proposition 1
- I Voted Today
- Prop. 1 Must Pass
- UPASS is Expanding
- News Bits
- ORCA is Coming
- City Club Debate Thursday
- Nominations
- Seattle Street Car Maps
- San Francisco Streetcar Lines, circa 1928
- Prop. 1 for the Eastside
- Building Blogs
- Prop. 1 "Makes Transit Dream A Reality"
- New Sounder Destination Signs
- P-I Editorial Board Considers Prop. 1
- Problems with I-985
- Tacoma News Tribune Endorses Prop 1!
- Mass Transit Now Ad
- Take Sounder to Celine Dion Sat Oct 18th
- Some things "Bad" are quite Good
- Transit News Round Up
- I Rode Link Too - And It Was Amazing
- New ST2 Page
- I RODE LIGHT RAIL TODAY!
- This is the 1,003rd Post
- Southeast Seattle Service Changes
- Seattle Times: $107 billion figure is false
- Light Rail Progress Photos
- Southwest King County Service Changes: Instant Reaction
- South Seattle/King County Bus Changes
- Register To Vote Right Now
- News Round-Up
- The Stranger's Back Cover
- $6 Million in Federal Funds for Point Defiance Bypass
- Streetcar Vote Delayed
- Prop. 1 on The Conversation
- ► September
(73)
- Constellations
- Parking Maximum Makes Sense
- Another Little Improvement For Amtrak Cascades
- Link Architecture In the P-I
- In Crosscut Today
- $700 Billion...
- Making the Seattle Streetcar more attractive
- Photos from MLK Streetfair
- November 4, 2008 - General Election
- Light Rail Safety
- Bel-Red Upzoning
- Board a LINK Train Tomorrow!
- The Seattle Times Says No, Again.
- Viaduct Tops Wired's List
- Oh Yeah, They Do Have An Argument...
- These Costs Are All Voodoo. Light Rail Is A House.
- The Weekly's Rick Anderson Doesn't Get it
- BNSF selects GNP/Ballard to serve Snohomish County shippers
- Barnett on the P-I piece
- The "Megaduct"
- New York Snobs vs. Google Transit
- What does Prop. 1 cost?
- Big Article in the P-I
- Service Frequency and Capacity on Link
- MS Connector Growing Some, Shrinking a Bit
- Prop 1 Debate
- Five New Ferries coming soon; Pierce County allows extended lease
- M Street to D Street Connection News
- Renovation at King Street Station begins
- September Sounder Train Update: Observation
- The 'Pro-Bus' ETA is Anything But.
- More Bus Service Nobody Was Expecting?
- Lakewood Putting the Screws to Sound Transit
- Beacon Hill Elevators May Delay Link Opening
- Mayors Vs "No" Team
- Voter Registration
- Times Fact-Checking
- In Context of The Future
- News Round Up
- More Poll Results
- Cost of Not Having Transit
- News Roundup
- How to Learn to Drive Trains
- Prop One Polling Well
- Transit Police Cars
- New Service Starting Next Week
- Mass Transit Now!/Prop. 1 Campaign Updates
- The Rail Crash
- Projections
- Sound Move and Proposition 1
- Truck Follies
- Feds move $8 billion into Highway Fund
- The Other Counties
- Metro Service Revisions
- P-I: Light Rail May Cut Traffic By 30%
- A Simple Question, A Simple Answer
- September Service Revisions
- New York City Taking My Advice
- Knedlik Dismissed
- Getting the Message
- Tax Lies
- Rossi Wants to Steal Money From Sound Transit
- Alki Car-Free Day
- Bus Crunch
- Chris Van Dyk Screws Up
- Bizarro World
- Sierra Club PAC Kick-off
- Volunteer for the Campaign
- Eyman Lying Again
- Local Amtrak Ridership Up
- From the 'No' Campaign
- More Buses During Viaduct Construction
- News Round Up
- ► August
(68)
- Rainier Valley Circulators
- Route 60
- Elsewhere in the Times
- More on Bus Wraps
- Sims wants Bus Wraps Back
- On the Sounding Board
- Link Light Rail World's Biggest Doondoggle?
- Are People Finally Noticing How Poorly Funded Amtrak Is?
- I don't get this
- Biden: Good Pick For Rail
- Sims' Metro Plan in the P-I
- Pierce County Parking
- Meet-up
- From the Comments
- Ron Sims' plan to save Metro
- Eastside Transit News
- Rural King County Service
- Route 36
- Light Rail and Bus Comparison
- Comparison of Link to Other Transit Systems
- Monorail Follies
- Worldwide Gas Prices
- Photos of NYC Subway Last Stops
- News Stands
- 'No' Campaign Delibrately Misleading on Sierra Club Support
- Vanishing Parking Lots
- Seattle Center Plans
- Traffic Mess this evening on 520
- Anti Prop. 1 Group not a Legal Campaign
- Sound Transit Promises On-Time Sea-Tac Station
- Aubrey Davis in the Times
- News Round-Up
- Traffic This Morning on I-5
- STB Anti-Endorsements
- Link Testing Video
- Seahawks Service: Local Press Ignores Sounder
- Seahawks Service: Not a Victory for the 'Market'
- One Bus Away: The Ultimate Bus Tool
- The Streetcar's Comeback in America
- Pierce County Fare Increase
- Cognitive Dissonance
- 'No' Campaign: running against the past
- Central Link Tukwila Live Wire Testing
- But 100,000 hours is a lot of buses
- Mass Transit Now: the 'Facebook' Campaign
- CT Expands, Raises Fares
- Transit Expansion Website Up
- Monorail Up and Running
- Eastside Commuter Roundtable (Part 2 of 2)
- Monorail Problems
- Challenges for Amtrak
- Streetcar Forums
- Issaquah Transit Center
- Seattle Transit Wiki
- Bus Stories
- The Bus Crunch
- Another Good Bill in Congress
- Are Land Use Patterns Changing?
- Second Amtrak Cascades Delayed
- Another Month, Another Ridership Record
- Cost of Transit Construction Falling?
- Things Rosy in Pierce County
- TriMet Steps Up Fare Enforcement
- P-I Editorial: If not now, then when?
- P-I: Fare Increase Off the table - For Now
- Eastside Commuter Rail Roundtable: Part I
- Good Bill in Congress
- Neighborhood Parking
- ► July
(73)
- Snohomish County Report
- Transit Could Save over $8000 a year
- Kemper Freeman
- State: No Viaduct Retrofit
- Metro & Link in the Rainier Valley
- 6 months to go...
- FRA and High Speed Rail
- BNSF Updates
- Overcrowding - The ripple effect of late buses
- People Ditch Their Cars
- Meanwhile, in Metro-Land
- Plan Odds and Ends
- SurveyUSA Polls Sound Transit District
- Meet-up
- Comment of the Day
- Vote Postmortem
- ST2 Fifteen Year Plan to go to Ballot
- Liveblog: The Vote!!! On The Ballot!!!
- Liveblog: The Vote (soon now)
- Liveblog: The Vote (discussion)
- Liveblog: Webcast of Board Meeting
- One mile on rail replaces four miles driving
- $3.80 toll for 520?
- A Re-introduction
- Nickels op-ed - any other ridiculous reasons to delay?
- Thursday Vote; Friday Meetup
- News Round Up
- Nickels Calls Out Kemper Freeman on Fantasy Ads
- Governor and challenger continue to disappoint on transit
- No, Really, the Seattle Times Hates Sound Transit
- I-985 is Certified
- Weekend Link Outreach
- In Other News...
- A note on the Times and P-I
- FTA Asks ST to Plan for Costlier Tunneling
- Sierra Club for ST2
- Phase I Complete!
- Political Update
- 15 Year Plan One Step Closer to Ballot
- Pass-buying Tip
- TOD Demonstration Project
- Good News for Brad
- Why I won't be donating to the Gregoire campaign
- More Ladenburg
- Drinking Liberally
- Ben's Crosscut Piece
- Handicapping the Board Vote
- If this plan won't pass, none will
- Fremont Historical Society streetcar tour
- Key Detail Missing
- The 15 Year Plan That Will Knock Your Socks Off
- Bus Chick on the Bus
- Sound Transit Details Out
- 15-Year Plan Moving Forward While ETA Volleys
- News Roundup
- What We Need From Sound Transit
- Cities Want Light Rail
- Snohomish County Gets Off the Train
- Climate Action Lab July 12
- Guide to Light Rail Art
- Bike Commutes Up, but where are the lockers?
- Light Rail Tagged
- On Fare Increases, 20/40/40, and Social Justice
- European Vacation
- Metro Fares (Probably) Going Up Again
- Seattle Synchronizes Downtown Traffic Lights
- RapidRide Sounding Board
- Talking Transportation for King County
- Little Boys and the Subway
- Good News
- First Streetcar Meeting: Today at 4pm
- I-985 and BRT
- Bus Manners, Blog Manners, and Housekeeping
- ► June
(72)
- Link and Metro Meetings
- More Seattle Fantasy Map
- Honolulu Light Rail
- Sound Transit Tests Link and Buses Sharing Tunnel
- $7 Gasoline in 2010
- Inside the Box
- Fanboy Poll Complete
- Another Great Audit
- House Passes Emergency Transit Bill
- MacDonald
- Anti-Rail Signs
- Way Off
- Welcome New Bloggers
- Light Rail over Columbia River moves forward
- Sigh.
- Interesting Read on Amtrak
- Tacoma News Tribune on Transit Expansion
- Metro Fare Increase Talk
- Why BRT Doesn't Make Sense
- Eastside Rail Open Houses
- Perhaps My Hunch Was Right
- New Look and Location For the Seattle Transit Blog
- Tri-Met WES unveiling
- Overhead Lines: A step beyond hybrid
- Why Link Will Cross I-90 First
- Vanpools up over 10%
- Dump the Pump day tomorrow, and last day for public comment
- Community Transit to increase fares by 75 cents
- LINK Wraps
- Streetcar Meetings
- Capitol Hill Art Again
- Suburban Slum Watch
- More Madness from Montlake Multimillionaires
- Everett Streetcar
- $4 gas = Light Rail Ballot in 2008
- Transit Report Card : San Francisco
- Central Link light-rail to Tukwila push run!
- Thoughts on the Amtrak Funding Bill
- We Need a Light Rail Vote This Year
- Expansion Pays for Itself in 15 Years
- Nickels on The Federal Government's Obligation to Cities
- The DSTT Will Be Full.
- Light Rail Through Duwamish?
- BRT vs Rail Again
- It's The Little Things.
- Exurban and Rural Transit Trips
- Monorail vs Light Rail
- Sumner Park and Ride
- Screeching to a Halt?
- Advice for New Transit Riders
- Gentrification and Old Buildings on MLK
- Aurora
- New York Without Subways?
- Sound Transit tour video
- Ben on KOMO
- New CT Maps!
- Transit Report Card: New York City
- Reminder : Meet-up tomorrow
- Re: Rising Gas Prices and Transit Agencies
- Source Request
- Rising Gas Prices and Transit Agencies
- Seattle's Funding Gap in the DJC
- Rapid Ride
- Seattle's Transit Use Rising Faster Than Normal
- Seattle Transit Meet-Up
- World's Most Impressive Subways
- Riders Swamp Transit
- You learn something new every day
- Bus Lanes to Ballard
- "Sustainable" Parking Garage
- American Bullet Trains?
- Ridership Data @ Orphan Road
- ► May
(65)
- More on Mukilteo: Blogging from Sounder
- Congratulations, Mukilteo!
- Eugene BRT: Rosy Outlook and Harsh Reality
- Do Seattlites Really Not Know How To Ride A Bus?
- Reminder: Metro Route Changes
- Rail, Not Buses
- Sound Transit: Time to Decide
- 14 Miles of Track Completed
- Capitol Hill Station Art Project Getting Cancelled?
- Non-Transit Related: Prefab Apartments
- Car Era Coming to an End...
- Oh now it makes sense, that's per year!
- Private Commuter Rail?
- Wow, in a country with bad transportation infrastucture, we're the worst
- A mini-vacation on Metro
- Nickels wants you to consider leaving the car at home
- Final South Sounder Project now with pics!
- Amtrak Cascades ridership up due to fuel costs
- Metro Service Changes
- New Sound Transit Schedules
- Cost of Doing Nothing is Not Zero
- Kent Station in the DJC
- Our ever expanding rush hour...
- Rising Oil Prices: Save Your Money, take transit
- Bridges are Bad sometimes....
- What If We Did Just Tear It Down?
- Sighing?
- SLU Streetcar ridership up
- Re: No Question...
- The American Way
- Comment Etiquette (III)
- Widening Our Highways Will Never Make Sense - But Narrowing Them Already Does.
- No Question: Rainier Valley was the perfect place for Link
- Pause for Light Rail
- Puyallup Herald asks the same question
- Our Slow Construction Will Save Thousands.
- Sound Transit survey
- ST Ridership up 15%
- Transit Report Card: Washington, DC
- What to do with an overcrowded park-and-ride?
- California Highspeed Rail Interactive Map
- Re: Waterfront Streetcar
- Mukilteo Sounder Station Opening
- Old Guy At Crosscut Hates Rail, No Surprise
- Chief Sealth Trail
- In a Continuing Series on How Expensive Roads Are
- Link Under Budget?
- SDOT Changing South-End For Link
- Danger of Speeding Buses!
- Transit Up Nationwide, Funding Here at a Stand-still
- Nice Meet-up
- Sounder locomotives to get "Hot Start" and new gen sets
- Non/Barely Transit Related: Dearborn development
- A Google Maps tour of Central Link, part 2
- Eastside Rails
- Regional Transit Map Book
- Reminder: Transit Meet-up
- A little more streetcars
- Amtrak Cascades: Families & Discounts
- Amtrak Cascades: A Better Value Than You Might Think
- Streetcars are a great idea
- Books on the Bus
- Precursor to Congestion Pricing Started
- Steepest Streets in Seattle
- Nearby Supermarkets?
- ► April
(79)
- ULI Reality Check Liveblog part 6
- ULI Reality Check Liveblog part 5
- ULI Reality Check Liveblog part 4
- ULI Reality Check Liveblog part 3
- ULI Reality Check Liveblog part 2
- Liveblogging from ULI Reality Check
- Metro wants your feed back on their new sign ideas
- Portland: I envy you
- A Google Maps tour of Central Link, part 1
- ST2.1 Outlook
- County wants your Opinion on Eastside Rail
- Lunch Bus
- Seattle Transit Blog Turns One Today!
- Prop 1 ST2 in November?
- ST2.1 or ST2?
- ST Draft Plan Summary for 2008
- Congestion Pricing Would Unclog Roads
- WPC Study Rebutted
- WPC Fights Rail In Vancouver
- Uh, Density?
- ST 109 in testing
- Raise My Gas Prices!
- Earth Day Press Conference: Go to the Ballot!
- Next Transit Meet-up
- ST News - Surely needed
- I am Generally Content with Sound Transit
- Things I don't like about Sound Transit
- The cost of driving
- Party Tram?!?
- Stanwood to join Amtrak Cascades
- TOD in the Rainer Valley on Central Link
- What Rossi Wants to Do with Sound Transit Dollars
- All aboard the SMART
- Things that Make Me Happy
- Things that Annoy Me
- New Logo
- Under Downtown
- Federal Way City Council Backs Light Rail
- Bus Couple
- New Metro signs
- Crosscut vs. Governance Reform
- Dino Rossi Declares War on Rail
- Meetings on Bus Changes
- Eastside rails being preserved
- Seattle-Only Tax for Light Rail?
- Check before you move
- A Quick Comment on the Paris Metro
- Congestion Prices and HOT Lanes Cont'd
- Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
- Waterfront Streetcar Building's website (Update) Streetcar Dead?
- SR 167 HOT Lane Information
- ST Board Meeting Today
- NYC Congestion Charge
- Pope Benedict Rides the Metro
- The Road to West Seattle
- Amtrak Cascades Leather Seats
- Parks or Transit?
- Headed to France for a Week
- What would be your solution to the West Seattle - Ballard Corridor?
- How about a Streetcar with your Viaduct?
- Variable Speed Limits coming to I-5 in 2009
- Larry Philips Op-Ed in the PI
- MyBus Google Maps Mash-Up Update
- First Amtrak Cascades Refurbished set in service
- Metro announces some more Transit Now specifics
- Pierce Appreciating the Attention
- Blogging is Bad for the Health
- Transit Report Card: Dallas
- TCC Open House
- Capitol Hill Station Art Concept
- Board Meeting Update
- Streetcar Crashes Again
- Biofuels And Climate Change
- Sound Transit Decides Tomorrow...
- The Island Home Ferry
- Double Decker A-Go-Go!
- Patient and Prepared!
- An Introduction
- Transit Open House Thursday!!!
- ► March
(62)
- One more voice for Eastside Rail...
- Metro Buses Falling Late
- Sierra Club Letter
- Tunnel Art
- I Promise
- Gregoire Wants Light Rail on the Bridge...
- Bikes on the Bus
- Making the Transition
- Sound Transit in Pierce County
- Cars: Not Cool, Really Expensive!
- Even More Tacoma Streetcars
- Ferries Round-Up
- Transit Information Technology Survey
- Congestion Pricing
- More Tacoma Streetcars
- Friends of Seattle Forum
- Elliot Bay Water Taxi Starts April 27th
- Redmond Transit Center
- More Streetcars in Tacoma Demanded!
- ▼ November
(64)