- North Seattle Metro / Link restructures
- Lamenting Link frequency (10:54)
- Collapse is a choice (18:28)
- Reconnect West Seattle (25:29)
Bellevue I-405 (39:26) - Mt. Rainier bus ideas (44:37)
Podcast #98: Donut hole
- Seattle TBD goes to the ballot
- County TBD?(18:35)
- West Seattle options (20:46)
- Bremerton BRT (31:26)
- 130th & 145th St station plans (40:07)
Podcast #97: Cancelling raises
- Seattle TBD renewal
- Metro drivers (17:35)
- Maximizing ridership (22:57)
- HALA (35:50)
- Gig car share (50:40)
Podcast #96: 40mph trains
- East-west passenger rail
- Center city connector on pause (11:44)
- Jump bikes (15:16)
- Opening streets (24:46)
- Community Transit and Everett Transit (31:50)
- Metro cuts (37:35)
Podcast #95: talking myself into this
- Swift’s Link connection
- Recovery fare (14:21)
- CDC’s questionable transit advice (21:55)
- ST’s revenue shortfall (27:12)
- Passenger ferries (34:08)
- Tacoma Dome Link (35:49)
Podcast #94: Sub-regional backbiting
- Sounder North
- Tacoma BRT (13:40)
- No really, Tacoma BRT (31:30)
- Uber + Lime quasi-merger (43:25)
- Huzzah for safe streets (57:15)
Podcast #93: Essential trips only
- Parking garages and opportunity cost
- ST3 cuts (17:00)
- Future metro ridership (25:56)
- West Seattle bridge (34:19)
- Musings on a work-from-home future (42:07)
(Apologies for the audio quality on this one. We had an unexpected gear change before recording.)
Podcast #92: Take the Link to Capitol Hill
We take questions from the reader mailbag.
Podcast #91: Now more than ever
Special guest Alex Hudson, Executive Director of Transportation Choices Coalition
- Federal funding & Covid-19 response
- County ballot measure is…dead? (13:23)
- Legislative update (21:19)
- Fare enforcement (26:57)
- Eastside restructure (33:02)
- West Seattle bridge (38:34)
Podcast #90: Car sharing is back
- Metro’s long range plan and the countywide ballot
- RapidRide R (17:41)
- Monorail expansion (28:15)
- Car sharing (31:30)
Podcast #89: Stay on Sound Transit
- More Connect 2020 gripes
- University St naming (5:33)
- Fare enforcement (8:55)
- MVET bill (29:20)
- SDOT capital projects (34:50)
- North link restructure (46:58)
Note: when we recorded this last week, I-976 had just been upheld by a local court; the upper court has since temporarily sided with Sound Transit.
Download linkPodcast #88: It’s always Festivus
- Connect 2020 airing of the grievances
- 130th St infill station (18:20)
- Protected bus lanes (32:23)
- Low-income fares (35:27)
- Bike and scooter share (50:19)
Podcast #87: prior positions not confirmed
Podcast #86: Thanksgiving Mailbag
Podcast #85: I-976 is bad
- 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)
Podcast #84: Like a ripe avocado
- 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)
Podcast #83: Proverbial teenagers can figure it out
- Rideshare tax to fund the streetcar (3:12)
- University Street station naming (13:04)
- New West Seattle – Ballard alternatives (19:35)
- Sounder South (45:56)
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Podcast #82: Trees are the right height
- 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)
Podcast #81: normal reaction of the bureaucracy
- 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)
Podcast #80: Muttering inaudibly
We answer questions from the mailbag.