Month: January 2011

You may have gone on vacation, but STB didn’t. Highlights since just before Christmas:

• ST whittles down the choices for North Link.
• A detailed look at not sending buses up I-5.
• Ridership numbers.
• Metro reroutes thanks to viaduct work.
• Security on Metro buses.
• Oran brings his graphic design skillz to critique the new Link schedules.
• Seattle agrees on transit, but not on how much to accommodate cars.
• TOD in Redmond.
• How to take transit to go skiing.
• Adam gets ST to add Link service in only 29 minutes. And they call me powerful!*

* not really.

Tee hee.

• Adult and Access Metro fares go up a quarter today.
• RapidRide B opens in October; Metro completely reorganizes service in the area at the same time.
• Seattle’s Transit Master Plan hits the street in July, guides the next round of city transit investment.
• ST Express fares go up in June, and the framework changes a bit.
• More service on 511, 522, and 532; cuts to 510, 513, 535, 540, 545, 554, 560, and 599.
• Another 75,000 hours of Metro cuts, 50,000 of which should be “efficiencies”.
• The Sound Transit Board selects its final preferred alternative for East Link, hopefully paving the way for construction in 2013.
• A new Tacoma Link station opens in June at Commerce & 11th.