Highline Times: Ground broken on permanent Tukwila commuter train station Puget Sound Business Journal: Work starts Monday on permanent Tukwila Sounder Station Seattle Times: A new $46m train stop being built at Tukwila Tukwila Reporter: Work is under way to build new Sounder rail station in Tukwila Most of these point out permanence, use the …
Part 1 of this series focused on infastructure improvements in the works for Southcenter. This post will focus on the very ambitious and complex proposed revision to the Southcenter-Tukwila Urban Center’s Comprehensive Plan Element recently completed by the Tukwila Planning Commission staff and a consultant, concentrating on zoning and the street grid. A copy from October 2012 can be found here. Highlights of …
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The city of Tukwila and its partners are committed to transforming Southcenter into an area more friendly to bus transit, commuter rail, bicylists and pedestrians, envisioning a truly urban center of varied neighborhoods. One of the centerpieces of this plan is the conversion of Baker Boulevard into a complete street, anchored by a new pedestrian bridge over the …
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Tukwila/International Blvd Station Parking lot by Atomic Taco Sound Transit did something really cool at their last board meeting. They updated their System Access Policy. Woo-hoo! Seriously, though, this is kind of a big deal. For the first decade or so of its existence, Sound Transit has muddled through without much of a formal policy about how …
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Bruce Gray at Sound Transit was kind enough to send us the newest station level data report for Link. These reports are a treasure trove of information, too much in fact for one post. Some things I found interesting: During the week the Rainier Valley (Beacon Hill Station to Rainier Beach Station) accounts for 28% of all boardings and …
Here’s an update on Link station boardings/alightings from ST spokesman Bruce Gray, a continuation of previously released data from 2010. For some reason, the 2nd quarter is the season for these. Each value includes both people getting on and getting off at the station, so it sums to twice total system boardings. 2Q 2012 Boardings/Alightings …
There are few neighborhoods in our region that have as good transit service as the International Blvd area of Tukwila does. With that comes an opportunity to harness existing capacity and use it to stimulate development. Yet Tukwila is often overlooked when it comes to TOD and land use. Indeed, the town is largely suburban …
by TIM BOND Last Wednesday Sound Transit held an open house (PDF) for the Central Link extension to S. 200th Street. Not much new was announced at the meeting; the 30% design has been completed and the project is being readied to be put up for bid. Because this will be a design-build contract, the contractor …
by TIM BOND Last night Sound Transit held a 30% design open house for Brooklyn Station. Brooklyn Station is the southernmost station of North Link, which will extend U-Link from Husky Stadium to Northgate. This design combines the best elements of the two options shown in January. Brooklyn Station is projected to add 12,000 daily …
The schedules at Link stations show the frequency of service and times for the first and last trains. Some people find that inadequate for planning a trip and want a detailed timetable. Here is my answer to your call, a stem-and-leaf format schedule showing all train departures from a station in a particular direction. I …
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There are a bunch of inaccuracies in Erica Barnett’s rant on Publicola Monday: As Seattle Transit Blog has noted, the distance between stations on the south end of the line is much longer than in the central, north, and (planned) east portions of the line: Nearly two-and-a-half miles from station to station, compared to just …
If Friday’s meeting announcement post didn’t seem like a fertile comment thread, you missed a pretty interesting discussion about station names. For what it’s worth, I’m a big fan of short and unambiguous names. If I were in charge, I’d rename Tukwila’s Sounder station “Longacres” and change TIB to “Tukwila”; ID/C to “Chinatown”, “University St.” …
Light rail service was briefly delayed this morning because of mechanical problems. Human Transit agrees with us that transit over SR-520 is probably best done through buses. Frank at Orphan Road seems to agree. Metro’s task force had its first meeting last night. Spokane Street work to affect bus service. In appreciation of Washington’s rural …
Big-think on how to make transit-oriented development work in Seattle. A slideshow on the Point Defiance Bypass. Soil testing for East Link begins. Heightened security at Federal Way Transit Center. A sketchy bus stop in Rainier Beach. Parking at Capitol Hill station. Talk of a farmer’s market there, too. Also, groovy video of the art …
[Update 4:38pm: P-I reports some more lanes are open, but traffic still looks ugly. Apparently, this was all caused by a moron tossing a cigarette into a bone-dry median.] Brian Bundridge, out at Tukwila station, has several items to report: “due to the brush fire in Des Moines, buses are being rerouted to Hwy 99/Pacific …
Beacon Hill Blog has a great tour of the Columbia City neighborhood being served by Link light rail starting in sixteen hours. They also have tours up of the Othello station, Rainer Beach station, and the Tukwila station.
Interwest Construction of Burlington has been awarded the contract for Stanwood Station. Construction on the $5 million dollar project will begin mid-April and due for completion in late September. Service will start in October serving 4 trains, 2 Northbound and 2 Southbound trains. The platform will be an unattended open air platform, like Tukwila Station. …
The FTA estimated that Sea-Tac station might not come on line until sometime in 2010, a few months after the 2009 estimated opening Sound Transit has scheduled. The delay would be primarly caused by the late bids and the fact the contractors had not yet written detailed plans and schedules at the time the FTA …
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Here are some photos I took a few hours ago of ST 105 testing between the pocket track near Henderson Street Station and the Duwamish River. Update: Link running at 45mph as of 6pm As always, a big thank you to Sound Transit for the invitation out to photograph the movement! For the rest of …