Denny Way Repaving and Future Route 8 – Seattle Transit Blog
1 day ago · Denny Way facing west from SounderBruce flickr. The Denny Way Paving project will repave 12 blocks of Denny Way as well as add curb bulbs, no-turn-on-red signs, 8 new curb ramps, and bus stop changes. The project predominantly focuses on pedestrian safety. Denny Way Repaving Project Map. Denny Way will be repaved from 5th Avenue (near Seattle Center) to Stewart Street (in SLU) for 11 blocks or ...
Most read & commented STB posts of 2024 – Seattle Transit Blog
Dec 31, 2024 · This year saw a handful of new writers join STB’s staff and a few excellent serial posts sparking good discussion. In the transit world, we saw the opening of the RapidRide G Line, the Link 2 Line Starter Line, the Lynnwood Link Extension, bus restructures in King and Snohomish Counties, and continued rebound in ridership from the lows of 2020.
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Jan 8, 2025 · Link 1 Line winter reductions start today through February 27 for a variety of maintenance tasks, as outlined in the December 5 Passenger Impact report and covered in the Urbanist, and the Seattle Times ($).. Overview. Reduced 1 Line Evening Service: starting at 5:30 pm trains will run every 12 minutes (instead of 8-10 minutes).Note that this includes part of …
Replacing the South Lake Union Streetcar – Seattle Transit Blog
Oct 4, 2024 · A circulator route is cheap to set up, but very expensive to operate. The only way to pay for the operation of it is to pull buses and drivers out of existing routes (even if new money were found to run the circulator route, the same service tradeoff applies, as that money could have been used instead to boost frequency on other routes).
Midweek Roundup: Long-Term Gains – Seattle Transit Blog
Nov 6, 2024 · Seattle streetcar, University Way, ca. 1939; Courtesy Paul Dorpat via HistoryLink.org Election 2024. Discussion of election results can be found in yesterday’s thread, but here are some news items:. The Urbanist: Early Washington State Election Results Are Favorable for Progressives The Seattle Times ($): Seattle Proposition 1 …
Weekend Roundup: New Zoning – Seattle Transit Blog
Oct 18, 2024 · Transit: Metro Matters: Metro’s first battery-electric base to be named Tukwila The Platform: Sound Transit Police bike unit boosts system safety with increased visibility and flexibility The Platform: Making it easier to take the S Line; Sound Transit summarizes five station access and parking projects under way at Sounder South Line stations. The Seattle Times ($): Why trains are 2 minutes ...
Ridership Patterns for RapidRide H Line – Seattle Transit Blog
Dec 17, 2024 · King County Metro’s RapidRide H Line travels inbound from Burien to downtown Seattle, via White Center and Delridge. Outbound trips travel in the reverse direction. The H Line launched in March 2023, replacing Route 120. In October 2024, the H Line had 8,636 average weekday boardings. H Line Map ...
Weekend Roundup – Seattle Transit Blog
Oct 11, 2024 · Crews pour new roadway pavement on the Ballard Bridge during a recent closure. (SDOT). The Ballard Bridge, Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (SR-520), and SR-99 Tunnel will be closed this weekend. Check Metro and ST service alerts for detours before travel.
Swift Blue Improvements – Seattle Transit Blog
Oct 26, 2024 · Community Transit will be improving Swift Blue along Evergreen Way in Lake Stickney (an unincorporated area north of Lynnwood) and Everett. The Swift corridor consists of Aurora Avenue, Pacific Highway and Evergreen Way. It currently has some BAT lanes with gaps. The new projects will fill in those gaps with new BAT lanes and potentially the missing sidewalks along the corridor.
First Week – Seattle Transit Blog
Sep 16, 2024 · So many homeless people yet so many jobs. Even worse, we have jobless people living on welfare (basically our tax dollars that could be going towards better transit and competitive labor wages), and “work at home” people making minimal contributions but earning huge salaries from tech companies.