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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!