If you lose interest in STB when you get out of town, you might have missed some pretty good stuff the last couple of weeks:
- Tim McCall asked fellow Shoreline residents to get involved in a 185th St station area planning process that may go seriously awry.
- Dan Ryan summarized recent changes to Sound Transit’s Long Range Plan.
- Brent criticized the $3 Regional Reduced Fare Permit application fee.
- I took a look at all the recent Deep Bore Tunnel troubles and decided that nothing much has actually changed.
- Congestion tolling downtown is a great idea that will hopefully one day get the consideration it deserves.
- Wes Mills argues for all-night transit.
- A preview of 2015.
- A 2015 preview focusing just on Community Transit.
- Reviews of 2014: Our most active posts, good things that happened, and some specific successes for Seattle Subway.
- If you had OneBusAway troubles in December,
they should be fixed today, but this is why. - Zach linked to all the other transit news here and here.
Hi Martin. The “recent changes” linked to One Bus Away article instead of the Sound Transit one.
Thanks, fixed.
As of now OneBusAway is still broken.
+1
Not working for me either. I think in that earlier discussion on the OBA problems we learned that it would be “early next year” or something similarly vague before the fix was actually complete. So it could be March…
Today’s news: Hill International has been signed to do the management work for part of East Link:
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/Sound-Transit-signs-Hill-International-for-East-Link-extension-preconstruction-work–43045
“The project is expected to be completed in 2019.”
Interesting, so E360 will be done in 2019, but the project will take until 2023 to open. I wouldn’t expect it to open too early since R8A phase 3 is getting a late start and the OMSF and the track connection at IDS isn’t scheduled to start construction until 2019.
At least there’ll be expanded parking at Overlake TC. Maybe if ST3 is passed the DB contractor could start on the Redmond extension and have it ready by the time East Link opens.
Electric Scooters with swappable battery packs.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/gogoro-smart-scooter/
It would be great to have these battery swap stations at the same spots where the bike shares are.
On 185th Street Station: It seems like this would be the perfect place for a retail cap much like was done in Columbus.
https://sites.google.com/site/freewaycaps/what-portland-cn-learn-from-florence-italy-and-columbus-ohio