This season’s Trailhead Direct service is wrapping up on October 28th, as the weather worsens and parking demand at trailheads drops. This year’s innovation was to directly serve particularly carless neighborhoods like Capitol Hill, rather than forcing a transfer (or drive) to Issaquah. Feel free to comment on your experiences with Trailhead Direct below, but […]

Today is the deadline to register online to vote in the November election. If you’ve moved here, changed address, or otherwise haven’t registered to vote, the time is now. Please go to MyVote.wa.gov, which is a portal for whatever registration transactions you need. Only Thurston County is offering a strictly transit-related measure on the ballot. […]

Paine Field commercial flights begin next year ($). Seattle government ditching some cars. As we reported previously, CT fares went up a quarter this week. Link tracks cracked ($); maintenance work this weekend. Everett Transit fares rising steeply through 2020. Buses on I-5 shoulder coming soon. Once a bikeshare leader, SDOT now squashing scooters ($) […]

If you’ve driven to the San Juans, especially in summer, you know the horror: scheduling a ferry slot months in advance, struggling with an overloaded website when the slots are released, allotting plenty of extra time in case you hit traffic, and showing up no later than 45 minutes before sailing. And then you fork […]

Mike Lindblom writes a fair deep dive on the 85th St BRT Station ($). ST to talk with Lower Queen Anne about station locations Sep. 20. The pro-CCC coalition ($) is impressively broad. The bus stop improvement plan was scuttled by privacy concerns. “Adaptive signals” are not great. Nuisance lawsuit against ST3 car tabs thrown […]

If you missed the Friday night news dump, it was a doozy. Lizz Giordano says they’re Upzoning downtown Everett ($). Bus lane coming to Columbia Street. Open Houses for the Link extension to Tacoma begin next week. RFP for Northgate TOD reissued; delay turns out to have been mostly a waste of time. Another for […]

In 2017, Metro began a pilot where it allowed employee shuttles from Microsoft and Seattle Children’s Hospital to use nine public bus stops scattered around Seattle, in exchange for a fee. Aside from money, sharing stops might improve inter-system transfers and foot traffic. But beyond global concerns about how the shuttles impact public transit ridership, […]

In his years on the Seattle City Council, Nick Licata consistently supported running more buses in traffic. He was also a frequent opponent of capital investment for higher-quality transit. Never a leader on bus lanes, he engaged in a little concern trolling about Move Seattle before ultimately supporting it.  He opposed light rail until its opening made […]

51,000 bus boardings on 3rd Avenue every day! If you missed it, there was an important update to the Madison BRT story. We’re still looking into it. Grist rides along with the people that keep LimeBikes running and properly positioned. Study says private shuttles can easily share stops with public buses. The Oregonian travels to […]