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- ▼ 2008
- ▼ August
(38)
- 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
(72)
- 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...
- 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!
- Transit Study at UW
- A Rehash: What Was Wrong With The Monorail
- County Transfers Monorail Cash to Transit Improvements
- Light rail cut from 520 plan
- Survey Results
- One Less Car Challenge
- Want to Boost the Economy, George? Build Transit!
- Community Transit's Swift
- Survey Results
- We Do Need Park and Rides (For Now)
- New Email Address!
- The Ex-motorist
- Bruce Agnew is crazy
- King County Councilman Dow Constantine on Light Rail
- Clearing Something Up about East Link
- Spokane Streetcar Study
- Light Rail Ridership Will Defy Expectations
- Sound Transit Workshop Part 2
- Re: Congestion Pricing Anytime Soon Is a Bad Idea
- Congestion Pricing Anytime Soon is a Bad Idea
- Sound Transit Ridership Up by 12.5%, KCM by 7% in 2007
- Monday Transporation Round-Up
- Gas Prices
- Seattle Transit Meet-Up Tomorrow!
- Rapid Ride Answers!
- Seattle's New Bike Map
- The Stranger's Erica C Barnett on ST2 in 2008
- King Street Station Makeover
- A new life begins for King Street Station
- Beacon Hill Tunnel Break-Through
- Sound Transit to break through Second Tunnel @ Beacon Hill Today
- Tracker Mystery Solved!
- Tips For Riding Metro
- No Levies with ST2 on Ballot?
- Faster, Cheaper, Stronger...
- Regionalism, "Affordable Housing"
- Do you have Rapid Ride Questions?
- STB Meet-Up Saturday
- Sound Transit Lunch Bus - March 28th, 2008
- I hate you, Metro pass sales site
- Crosscut is Confused (again)
- Bus Tracker On The Fritz?
- On a small break
- ► February
(84)
- Fares go up tomorrow
- Parking Becoming Ever Harder in the City...
- And the NIMBY of the Century Award Goes to....
- Sea-Tac Station Update
- Streetcar Answers
- Wednesday Transportation Round-up
- Lane Closures on I-90
- Portland MAX
- Yet again, Transit is Cheaper than Cars
- Inside-out Cities
- Do You Have Streetcar Questions?
- Eight Lane 520?
- Eastside Rail
- Second Tunnel Hole Through Next Week!
- More Transit Now Service
- Sea-Tac Station
- New Change at Washington State Ferries
- How the Other Half Lives...
- Request for Feedback
- Seattle Streetcar Tagged
- Streetcar Vandalized!
- Expensive Oil?
- Sound Transit Survey
- Ticket Machines for Streetcars
- New Streetcar Ticket Vending Machines
- The Dream Ticket?
- Regular Bremerton ferry service resumes
- Anderson Island Terminal closed
- That's Transit Oriented Development
- (Far) Eastside Metro Revisions
- Waterfront Streetcar barn found?
- The Troubled Ferry System: Some thoughts
- Tacoma Link conversion? You Bet'cha!
- Central Link Light Rail update - Feb 16th, 2008
- Weekend Transit Round-up
- M/V Chinook back on Ebay
- Call for Artists for UW station
- Call for Artists for UW station
- Eastside Rail Town Hall Meeting
- Eastside Rail Town Hall Meeting
- West Seattle Open House
- West Seattle Open House
- Barnett on Streetcar, and Transit to Marysville?
- Gregoire signs law for new ferries
- National Transportation Planning
- Bremerton Mayor Cary Bozeman steps into the fire...
- The differences between the Chinook and Snohomish
- Even more setback for the ferry fleet
- Sub-Area Equity
- RapidRide Buses
- Sound Transit... Ferries?
- Look out Alaska - Here comes Virgin and JetBlue
- Bremerton - The Redhead Stepchild Route?
- Legislative Bill Tracker
- FTA Transit Database
- M/V Hyak in was in service on Bremerton Run
- Hooray!
- M/V Snohomish strikes Bremerton dock
- More from the ST Board Meeting
- More Time in Cars means more Gadgets in Cars
- SB 6772 Getting Committee Vote Tomorrow
- New ST Schedules
- Comment Etiquette (II)
- Revised Bremerton Ferry schedule - Victoria Express even helping
- Ferry Officials already looking at alternative for Steilacoom II
- SB 6772
- Our BRT future?
- Seattle Transit Flickr
- The Bad and Good Times of Washington State Ferries
- Viaduct Meeting Next Week
- New Route 157
- City Giving Money to Study Streetcars
- 17 Route Change Update
- Four Car Link Train
- SB 6772 Hearing at 3 pm
- Would you use a Metro or Sound Transit Credit Card?
- $128 mn for Sound Transit in 2008 Federal Budget
- Sound Transit Workshop Video
- Bush does like Sound Transit however
- Link Testing in Tunnel Video
- President Bush isses FY 2009 Budget for Amtrak
- Reading the tea leaves
- Buses vs. Rail
- West Seattle RapidRide
- ► January
(70)
- Some Art with Your Rail
- Sound Transit Workshop
- Possible Metro Strike
- I-90, Hwy 2, I-84 all Closed.... Blewett Next?
- M/V Christine Anderson Sea Trails starts Monday
- New Bus Schedules
- Reminder: Sound Transit Workshop Today, 2-4 pm
- A mini-RTID?
- More ORCA
- Central Link in Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel video
- More HB 3311
- King Street Station update
- The Park-and-Ride Dilemma
- Answer to the ORCA question
- Another Transit Bill in Olympia?
- Tips for Snow Busing
- Interesting Bus Day
- Snow + buses = stuck or crashes, trains are fine
- Transit Meet-Up #2, Success!
- Vesely on Governance
- Seattle Transit Meet-Up
- ST2.1 in 2008? Maybe not
- SB 6772 Comments (II)
- Route 17
- SB 6772 Comments
- Metro Passes 110mn riders per year
- "Personalized Rapid Transport"
- Here it Comes
- Governance is About Letting the State Off the Hook
- What Gives On Governance? Geoff Simpson, others
- Fantasy Maps
- Gregiore's Climate Action Plan: Where's the rail?
- Free rides end for Streetcar; reality begans
- Sound Transit in Danger of Disbandment - ACT NOW!!
- Battle Stations, Everyone
- The City Council wants status reports on the transportation projects in Old Town
- "You need some sort of rapid transport system in the city."
- Wifi on the bus and Sounder - Not Shabby!
- A look at ST for 2007
- Could the Vancouver Transit Model Work Here?
- What is BRT like again?
- UW Everett and Everett Station - The Prime Choice
- Sound Transit - The Tunnel Edition - Transit Tunnel - Beacon Hill - University Link
- Engaging with Conservatives
- Rail can't work in the Northwest
- Sounder Park & Rides
- Metro Wants Feedback on Eastside BRT
- Retro Style! Willamette Work Party Jan 12th, 2008
- WSTB on Ferries
- Now the Ferry Blame Game begins....
- And more ferries go down for the count
- M/V Snohomish resumes Port Townsend - Keystone route on Friday Monday
- Port of Seattle on track to purchase BNSF corridor
- Gregoire's 520 Plan: Interesting Positives
- Streetcar Network
- 520 getting tolls, never getting light rail
- Central Link Testing Update - Tentitive Schedule
- Rapid Ride: This is what 0.1% buys you?
- State Auditor Gives High Praise to Sound Transit
- Seattle 2 Port Townsend - A Deeper look
- Number Crunching the Port Townsend - Seattle Passenger Ferry run
- Why governance reform?
- Riding with the 12th Man - Seahawks Train to Seattle
- State Auditor’s independent audit of Sound Transit’s accountability gives agency high marks
- More Governance Scheming
- Dinner Train owner still hopeful
- Friday Transit Round Up
- More Transit "NOW"
- Metro Raising Fares
- 2008 Thoughts and Predictions
- ▼ August
(38)
- ► 2007