• New city council
• I-976 impacts on Sound Transit and Metro (12:49)
• RapidRide K and a possible small victory in Eastgate (44:56)
• Sammamish (50:58)

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• Weekend link disruptions
• Second Montlake bridge? or not (6:41)
• 520 bus restructures (15:12)
• RapidRide J (25:05)
• King County’s new electrification initiative (38:05)

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• Lightning and transit ops
• Love for the NE Seattle restructure (2:29)
• Monorail and ORCA (9:41)
• Downtown Kirkland growth (13:22)
• Ridesharing redux (18:33)
• Wenatchee transit (32:44)
• Ill-timed fare enforcement (41:30)

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• SEPA reform
• Carsharing (8:44) 
• Bus lane enforcement in general… (27:00)
• West Seattle in particular (30:55)
• Passenger-miles matter (32:59)
• Least-reliable routes (36:53)
• Station access funds (38:08)

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We answer questions from the mailbag.

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• Housekeeping (1:04)
• Expedia (7:45)
• Endorsements (21:25)
• Next train signs (28:38)
• Community Transit restructures (32:48)
• Third Avenue (41:51)

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• West Seattle – Ballard goes to EIS (2:20)
• Access contract (18:40)
• Cascades (25:40)
• ADU legislation (44:18)

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• Follow up: Via (2:48)
• Congestion pricing report (7:56)
• Amtrak NTSB hearing (24:37)
• West Seattle – Ballard preferred alternative (32:57)
• OMF South (43:47)
• Scooters (50:03)

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• Mini transit report card: Ireland
• Via transit pilot (2:30)
• Free transit on snow days? (24:14)
• West Seattle and ST3 (29:33)
• Why doesn’t Seattle have scooters? (38:12)
• Speculation on the delayed congestion pricing report (45:33)

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• Car tabs in the legislature
• Transportation bill in the legislature (5:05)
• ST3 costs (22:39) Note: after recording, Sound Transit verified that the cost estimate applies to the representative alignment.
• Next steps for housing affordability (30:50)
• Delridge, Rainier, and the state of RapidRide (37:23)

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• Viadoom
• Times poll
• Center City Connector
• Chariot, Ride2, and autonomous buses
• Microsoft, Eastside mayors, and affordable housing

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We answer questions from the reader mailbag.

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• New SDOT director. GGW’s take. (2:00)
• How would ending 405 tolls affect buses? (15:30)
• Minimum density (25:55)
• The boring company’s new tunnel (38:29)

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• Fare enforcement Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (1:10)
• ST3 Level 3 (STB, Seattle Subway) (17:51)
• JUMP Bike review (26:02)
  • From the archives: Is bike share good business?
• Prospects for climate change legislation (31:33)
• Seattle TBD in review (35:08)
• Passenger rail (48:05)

• Councilmember Rob Johnson retires
• IDS/Chinatown station (7:08)
• Why the rent is so high (22:33)
• Decongestion pricing (28:06)
• 1631/election fallout (38:57)
• Kirkland restructure (47:04)

• Ballard station options
• Chinatown station options (15:05)
• Keeping the 3/4 on James (24:03)
• Eastgate microtransit (35:05)
• The promise and peril of ideathons (44:12)

Peter joins Frank to talk about

• Paris
• The Mayor’s budget (7:00)
• RapidRide (19:15)
• ST3 Level 2 (32:38)

Answering your questions

• Elected boards (2:31)
• Earthquakes (9:20)
• Fare evasion (9:50)
• Streetcar alternatives (11:20)
• Light rail to Laurelhurst (19:00)
• East link frequency (22:00)
• Center platforms (24:20)
• Fare evasion and ORCA (28:20)
• Post-viaduct transit from the South (30:20)
• 4th avenue CID station (31:20)
• Seattle Circulator (32:59)
• City council (36:01)
• Post-viaduct transit from the north (40:55)
• Real time info for Link (42:40)
• Union station (46:04)
• Transit maps (48:27)
• Fixed bridge to Ballard (50:18)
• Transit operator dream routes (50:38)
• Salvaging CCC and Madison BRT (51:48)