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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
  • ► 2007
    • ► December (54)
      • Buses over Streetcars
      • Making Rail Transit Effective - Parking
      • Seattle Can Learn From Other Cities on the Viaduct
      • Bus Tunnel Back Open
      • Bellevue - Snohomish Commuter Rail
      • Central Link Light Rail Update - 12-26-2007